PDEng Programme : Innovative Dynamic Reactor concept for Heat storage at Eindhoven University of Technology

The main part of the program will be working on a design project. Presently we look for a trainee on the following project:

Innovative Dynamic Reactor concept for Heat storage (IDRW)

IDRW has the ambition to work on one of the main challenges of the future: A constant energy supply with help of renewable energy. As renewable sources are fluctuating and uncontrollable, a high demand exists for long term storage systems. In a house, almost 75% of the energy consumption is in the form of heat. Therefor a storage of heat will have a great value for the coming energy transition.

Within this project we will further develop a heat storage system based on Thermal Chemical Materials (TCM). These materials stores heat during a dehydration reaction and release the heat by hydration of the material. In the last year, TNO and TU/e worked on a new patented reactor concept. Within this project you will work on combining this reactor concept and transport of the TCM from storage to reaction area.

In this project, the transport of the material in the reactor area has to be engineered, characterized with lab experiments and validated with numerical models. In addition to the transport of TCM, the material has to be in contact with water vapor for the correct reactions. This is also one of the design challenges to be integrated into the reactor.

This project is part of a long term project developing heat batteries, whereby TNO (Dutch research organization) and Caldic (Chemical distributor and manufacturer) are working together in different European and National projects. This project will have strong interaction with industry and research institutes.

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PDEng Programme : Innovative Dynamic Reactor concept for Heat storage at Eindhoven University of Technology