Recent Progress on Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage Systems

Recent Progress on Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage Systems

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing interest in the design and construction of integrated energy conversion and storage systems (IECSSs) that can simultaneously capture and store various forms of energies from nature. A large number of IECSSs have been developed with different combination of energy conversion technologies such as solar cells, mechanical generators and thermoele...

Energy Storage - Part I: Batteries and Energy Conversion Systems

This special issue presents a review of recent advances in electrochemical energy storage, battery management systems, and power electronics for grid-scale energy storage applications. The importance of energy storage across the entire electricity infrastructure is growing rapidly. In particular, this is highlighted by the urgent need to address the intermittency challenge caused by the large-s...

Some Investigations on Recent Advances in Wind Energy Conversion Systems

Wind energy one of the world’s fastest growing energy technologies. It is estimated that 16% of the world’s electricity will be harnessed from wind power by 2020. Efficient and stable utilization of wind energy has been an important problem. The present work is a comprehensive report on various topologies and generators used in WECS aimed at drawing comparison between the various options availa...

Recent progress in solution plasma-synthesized-carbon-supported catalysts for energy conversion systems

Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory for Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beiji...