THUNDER project aims at developing sustainable waste heat recovery and seasonal storage solutions available to data centres in urban environments, in order to supply heat to neighbouring district heating networks and at the same time providing a cooling /service to the data centres. Thermochemical material (TCM) based storages are targeted. The storage technology is innovative and the materials are selected to increase the storage capacity, by enhanced heat and mass transfer processes and near-zero thermal losses. In combination with thermal upgrade devices (such as high-temperature heat pumps), these storage systems, based on chemical reactions and sorption processes, provide a next-generation efficient and compact storage solution able to exploit the low-grade quality waste thermal fluxes from data centres. In this concept, waste heat from data is accumulated during summertime, stored and released into the district heating network during the winter period.
TPG role
- State of Charge estimation for Thermal Energy Storage
- Support to the development of the “Heat on Wheels” approach