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Fig.2: REDOX heat battery Fig.3: Test container at Austrian
laboratory setup (Photo: TNO) demonstration site (for PV,
converter, batteries and BEMS
cabinet) (Photo: AEE INTEC)
economic benefits, enabling reliable and scientists from the Dutch is regenerated by supplying hydrogen
operation with a positive business research organization TNO has built produced by renewable electricity.
case in Europe’s building stock. a laboratory scale setup for testing This cyclic operation enables the
a heat storage technology based on use of this energy storage system
Real building demonstrations redox reactions of metals - REDOX similarly as we currently use standard
Impact of the SCORES system will heat battery as it uses the REDuction rechargeable batteries at home,
be a broad assessment covering and OXidation reactions to store heat. with the difference of storing heat
stakeholders of various economical rather than electricity. In the course
levels like individual homeowners, In the REDOX heat battery the metal of the SCORES project, the REDOX
housing companies, grid owners, core is oxidized using air and the heat technology will be developed
energy companies and governments, heat generated is used for supplying from the current TRL 4 to TRL 6 and
ecological issues and also the domestic hot water and space demonstrated in a relevant working
security of supply /reduced European heating. After the reaction, the core environment. l
dependence on fossil fuels originating
from unstable countries from Project ID: 766464
across the globe. Within this impact
assessment, a first evaluation is Website: http://www.scores-project.eu/
performed on two demonstrations.
Demonstrations of the integrated Start date: November 2017
hybrid energy system will take place
in two real buildings representative of Duration: 48 months
different climate and energy system
configurations for three cases, in Project coordinator: Ing. Peter van Os
Central Europe (Austria) with and
without a heat grid, and in Middle/ Contact email: peter.vanos@tno.nl
Southern Europe (France) without a
heat grid. Project partners: TNO, AEE-INTEC, CAMPA, EDF, FENIX TNT,
REDOX heat battery FORSEE POWER, HELIOPAC, INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE SETUBAL,
One of the key technologies to be
demonstrated is a Power – to – KONIG METALL, RINA-CONSULTING, SIEMENS and STADTWERKE
heat concept developed within the
SCORES project. A team of engineers GLEISDORF.
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