Related Sites

IEA bodies dealing with thermal energy storage

• IEA SHC Solar Heating and cooling Programme
• IEA ECES Energy conservation through energy storage Annex 17
• Official site of Annex 17

Research institutes participating in Task 32

• A IWT TUG Graz, Austria
• CH SPF Rapperswil Switzerland
• CH BASE consultants Lausanne Switzerland OA
• D ITW Stuttgart Germany
• DK BYG-DTU Denmark
• F INES, France
• NL ECN Petten The Netherlands

Industries proposing thermal storage units or materials

• AUS Teap Energy
  Manufacturer of PCM the series : TH from -32 °C to +89 °C
• D Rubitherm
  Provider of PCM based on paraffins and waxes materials
• D Sortech
  Manufacturer of cooling systems based on adsorption processes (sorption, silica gel material)
• F Cristopia Energy Systems
  Manufacturer of PCM available in spherical modules from -33°C to +27°C
• JPN Mitsubishi Corporation Chemicals
  Manufacturer of PCM

Publications on thermal storage

• ZAE Bayern list of reports (search Sorption or Zeolite)
• OFEN Switzerland research program (search storage or zeolith or speicher)

Books on thermal storage and solar energy

• De Winter (Ed.) Solar Collectors, Energy Storage, and Materials
        June 1991, MIT Press .. Historical ! A must...
• MIT press : check the list of books from MIT Press. Great quality and bodies of information !

Some projects with thermal storage for solar energy

Solar combisystems in Altener programme

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