**Meet the editors**

Dr Xiangping Chen received her PhD degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2013. She is currently an associate professor in Guizhou University, China. Her research interests are renewable energy with energy storage, energy management and energy efficiency improvement.

Dr Wenping Cao received his BEng degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and his PhD degree in electrical machines and drives from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, in 2004. He is currently a chair professor of Electrical Power Engineering in Aston University, Birmingham, UK. His research interests include fault

analysis and condition monitoring of electrical energy systems.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Thermal Energy Storage 1**

**Change Materials 3**

Dragan Stevanovic

**Section 2 Electrical Energy Storage 77**

**Storage System 103**

**Wind Turbines 123**

**Buildings 51**

**Technology and Gas Turbine 27**

Uroš Stritih and Urška Mlakar

Chapter 3 **Technologies for Seasonal Solar Energy Storage in**

Chapter 1 **Heat Exchange Analysis on Latent Heat Thermal Energy**

**Storage Systems Using Molten Salts and Nanoparticles as Phase**

Adio Miliozzi, Raffaele Liberatore, Daniele Nicolini, Manila Chieruzzi, Elisabetta Veca, Tommaso Crescenzi and Luigi Torre

Chapter 2 **High Temperature Energy Storage (HiTES) with Pebble Heater**

Chapter 4 **A Novel Highly Integrated Hybrid Energy Storage System for Electric Propulsion and Smart Grid Applications 79** Alessandro Serpi, Mario Porru and Alfonso Damiano

Chapter 5 **Synergetic Control of a Hybrid Battery-Ultracapacitor Energy**

Rached Dhaouadi, Kamyar Khosravi and Yoichi Hori

Chapter 6 **Analysis of Various Energy Storage Systems for Variable Speed**

**Section 3 Integration of Energy Storage into Applications 121**

Youngil Kim and Robert J. Harrington

## Contents


#### Chapter 7 **Optimal Design and Operation Management of Battery-Based Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Microgrids 145** Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, Jeremy Dulout, Corinne Alonso, Bruno

Jammes and Josep M. Guerrero

#### Chapter 8 **Fabrication and Characterization of Supercapacitors toward Self-Powered System 167**

Ananthakumar Ramadoss, Balasubramaniam Saravanakumar and Sang-Jae Kim

Preface

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port throughout the process.

Energy storage is becoming increasingly important for renewables, smart grids, electrified propulsion and smart buildings. Collectively, these will help establish a low-carbon econo‐ my worldwide, and the related technologies are evolving rapidly. This book is aimed at in‐ forming the audience of the latest technological developments in energy storage derived from research community and industrial R&D. The topic covers multi-energy storage forms (batteries, supercapacitors, solar, thermal energy storage, etc.). The book is also concerned with the associated control technologies and economic models of these energy storage sys‐

The book is organised into three sections: "Thermal Energy Storage", "Electrical Energy Storage" and "Integration of Energy Storage into Applications". The reader will be exposed to these broad topics in technical depth, including system architecture, modelling, trial tests, energy management and control, implementation and integration with systems, such as wind turbine, smart grids and smart buildings. The editors are grateful to all contributing authors and especially to the Publishing Process Manager, Ms. Dajana Pemac, for her sup‐

**Dr. Xiangping Chen**

**Prof. Wenping Cao**

Guizhou University, Guiyang, P.R. China

Aston University, Birmingham, UK

## Preface

Chapter 7 **Optimal Design and Operation Management of Battery-Based Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Microgrids 145**

Chapter 8 **Fabrication and Characterization of Supercapacitors toward**

Jammes and Josep M. Guerrero

**Self-Powered System 167**

Sang-Jae Kim

**VI** Contents

Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, Jeremy Dulout, Corinne Alonso, Bruno

Ananthakumar Ramadoss, Balasubramaniam Saravanakumar and

Energy storage is becoming increasingly important for renewables, smart grids, electrified propulsion and smart buildings. Collectively, these will help establish a low-carbon econo‐ my worldwide, and the related technologies are evolving rapidly. This book is aimed at in‐ forming the audience of the latest technological developments in energy storage derived from research community and industrial R&D. The topic covers multi-energy storage forms (batteries, supercapacitors, solar, thermal energy storage, etc.). The book is also concerned with the associated control technologies and economic models of these energy storage sys‐ tems.

The book is organised into three sections: "Thermal Energy Storage", "Electrical Energy Storage" and "Integration of Energy Storage into Applications". The reader will be exposed to these broad topics in technical depth, including system architecture, modelling, trial tests, energy management and control, implementation and integration with systems, such as wind turbine, smart grids and smart buildings. The editors are grateful to all contributing authors and especially to the Publishing Process Manager, Ms. Dajana Pemac, for her sup‐ port throughout the process.

> **Dr. Xiangping Chen** Guizhou University, Guiyang, P.R. China

> > **Prof. Wenping Cao** Aston University, Birmingham, UK

**Section 1**

**Thermal Energy Storage**
