TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY
ENERGY STORAGE LIQUID AIR
faced by electricity providers of balancing power supply and demand – thanks to a major research project. Led by energy experts at the University
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of Birmingham, MANIFEST (Multi-Scale Analysis for Facilities for Energy Storage) is a £5 million project that taps into Birmingham’s long-standing expertise in cryogenic and thermal energy storage. Te programme investigates how we can
further improve energy storage technologies through integration and explore potential application scenarios with an aim to accelerate the deployment of the storage technologies. MANIFEST addresses a number of
research questions about how materials are better used in energy storage devices, how storage technologies can be better integrated and how integrated energy storage devices can be best optimised in the energy system.
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eveloped by University of Birmingham academics, liquid air energy storage could play a part in helping to crack the global challenge
Birmingham’s liquid lead in cracking global energy storage challenge
Te project, led by Dr Jonathan Radcliffe, brings together Birmingham’s expertise in liquid air and thermal energy storage with scientists from across the country working on thermo-mechanical and electrochemical storage technologies and their integration and optimisation. Professor Yulong Ding, from the
University of Birmingham and one of the originators of liquid air energy storage, is leading on multiscale modelling of energy storage systems in MANIFEST. Professor Ding comments: “Modelling energy storage systems is extremely complex and challenging, the MANIFEST programme provided cross-university and cross-discipline collaborations for addressing the challenge. Equally important and also of our particular interest is experimental validation of multiscale modelling through this research programme. “Technologies such as liquid air and thermal energy storage have a great potential to help crack the energy conundrum: how
can variable generation from renewables meet the needs of energy users. We have one of the world’s first experimental cryogenic energy storage facilities on campus and also achieved success with the first commercially available shipping container constructed from cold storage materials that can be charged with cold energy.” Additionally, the University of
Birmingham is leading on establishing UKESTO (UK Energy Storage Observatory) as part of the MANIFEST project – creating a national ‘observatory’ for energy storage that will give scientists online access to data from experimental facilities at the partner universities within the consortium.
MANIFEST and UKESTO lead Dr
Jonathan Radcliffe, Reader in Energy Systems and Innovation, comments: “MANIFEST is allowing the detailed study of a range of energy storage technologies and their potential impact across the energy system. Tere is a focus on batteries now,
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