Efficient Heat Exchanger and Particle Thermal Energy Reservoir (HEATER) for Zero Carbon Industrial Process Heat (HEATER-IPH) and Long Duration Energy Storage (HEATER-LDES)

Alumina Energy has developed low-cost and long duration particle packed bed TES technology with flexibility to use several low-cost and high temperature stable particles storage materials (HEATER). Particle TES allows a large temperature difference increasing the energy density and lowering cost by deploying low-cost vertical silos enabling a small footprint and using cheap particle media. The system integrates with renewable resources (electric or thermal) to charge during the day (~8-hours) and discharge zero carbon energy (thermal or electric) over long durations (12-24 hours) suitable for industrial process heat (HEATER-IPH) or utility long duration energy storage (HEATER-LDES) with LEC under $100/MWh.