What are the most effective strategies for mitigating thermal losses and maintaining the performance of a TES system over its operational lifetime? How can these systems be designed to minimize maintenance requirements and maximize uptime?
Assuming that TES = Thermal Energy Storage, insulation and cladding are the obvious answers. What specific issue are you looking at?
- The material for the TES enclosure should have good insulation properties eg timber, the design should have minimum joints and orifices except for the service inlet and outlet.
- in short apply the best possible insulation to the unit.
Arnob Alam Ani could you better define what you mean by losses? Heat losses - then the comments above basically cover it. Is there something specific about your TES system that would complicate standard insulation practices? Do you mean loss in thermal performance over time, as can happen with latent heat thermal storage systems where the material degrades over time? That would be highly material specific. In organics it's often related to avoiding excessive superheat that would degrade the material. In inorganics, you're often dealing with some phase segregation or other non-ideal crystallization/solidification that decreases available latent volume. Avoiding those can be complicated and require chemical modifications to the process.
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