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Kinetic of desorption in chemisorption heat pump technology for solar thermal energy storage (2025)
Journal Article
Najjaran, A., Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Roskilly, T. (2025). Kinetic of desorption in chemisorption heat pump technology for solar thermal energy storage. Energy, 326, Article 136197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.136197

In this research, the kinetics of the desorption process within chemisorption heat pump systems are studied, particularly for storing thermal energy. Chemisorption heat pumps, recognised for their heating and cooling capabilities, have recently been... Read More about Kinetic of desorption in chemisorption heat pump technology for solar thermal energy storage.

Dynamic modelling and performance analysis of compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption for seasonal solar thermal energy storage (2024)
Journal Article
Meibodi, S. S., Ma, Z., Roskilly, A. P., & Bao, H. (2025). Dynamic modelling and performance analysis of compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption for seasonal solar thermal energy storage. Chemical Engineering Science, 301, Article 120739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2024.120739

The present paper investigates the dynamic thermal behaviour of novel seasonal solar thermal energy storage using compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption technology to supply domestic space heating demands. The proposed compressor-assisted thermo... Read More about Dynamic modelling and performance analysis of compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption for seasonal solar thermal energy storage.

Experimental parametric evaluation of adsorption characteristics for silica gel - water based open-bed system for seasonal thermal energy storage (2024)
Journal Article
Koley, S., Bao, H., Roskilly, A. P., & Ma, Z. (2024). Experimental parametric evaluation of adsorption characteristics for silica gel - water based open-bed system for seasonal thermal energy storage. Journal of Energy Storage, 89, Article 111812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.111812

This study aims to investigate the potential of using commercial silica gel as an energy storage material in a bulk-scale open bed adsorption-based system to achieve efficient domestic heating using renewable energy sources. Designing an efficient th... Read More about Experimental parametric evaluation of adsorption characteristics for silica gel - water based open-bed system for seasonal thermal energy storage.

Hydrogen rich syngas production through sewage sludge pyrolysis: A comprehensive experimental investigation and performance optimisation using statistical analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Shivaprasad, K. V., Heslop, J., Roy, D., Malik, A., Wang, Y., Roskilly, A. P., & Bao, H. (2024). Hydrogen rich syngas production through sewage sludge pyrolysis: A comprehensive experimental investigation and performance optimisation using statistical analysis. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 187, 270-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2024.04.071

Bioenergy is anticipated to play a significant role in the United Kingdom’s Net Zero 2050 scenario. This study aims to explore the possibility of producing hydrogen-rich syngas using sewage sludge from a wastewater treatment plant located in England,... Read More about Hydrogen rich syngas production through sewage sludge pyrolysis: A comprehensive experimental investigation and performance optimisation using statistical analysis.

Coordinated Control for Smoothing Wind Power Fluctuation using Energy Storage Systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, R., Jiang, J., Bao, H., & Sun, H. (2024, July). Coordinated Control for Smoothing Wind Power Fluctuation using Energy Storage Systems. Presented at 28th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC), Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece

The intermittent and fluctuating nature of wind energy challenges the stability of power grids. This paper proposes a coordinated control strategy for a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) and lithium-ion energy storage systems to achieve power smo... Read More about Coordinated Control for Smoothing Wind Power Fluctuation using Energy Storage Systems.

Numerical investigation of form-stable composite phase change material for battery passive cooling (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Wang, R., Bao, H., Roskilly, A. P., & Ma, Z. (2023). Numerical investigation of form-stable composite phase change material for battery passive cooling. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 50, Article 103410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2023.103410

Phase change material (PCM) has gathered much attention in battery thermal management for electric vehicles, in which form-stable PCM is a promising method to reduce the leakage of energy storage material. In this paper, a composite PCM that has form... Read More about Numerical investigation of form-stable composite phase change material for battery passive cooling.

Thermochemical energy storage for cabin heating in battery powered electric vehicles (2023)
Journal Article
Wilks, M., Wang, C., Ling-Chin, J., Wang, X., & Bao, H. (2023). Thermochemical energy storage for cabin heating in battery powered electric vehicles. Energy Conversion and Management, 291, Article 117325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117325

The potential of thermochemical adsorption heat storage technology for battery electric vehicle (EV) cabin heating was explored in this study. A novel modular reactor with multiple adsorption units was designed with working pair SrCl2-NH3. Numerical... Read More about Thermochemical energy storage for cabin heating in battery powered electric vehicles.

Dynamic Modelling and Experimental Validation of a Pneumatic Radial Piston Motor (2023)
Journal Article
Grimaldi, K., Najjaran, A., Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Roskilly, T. (2023). Dynamic Modelling and Experimental Validation of a Pneumatic Radial Piston Motor. Energies, 16(4), Article 1954. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041954

A pneumatic radial piston motor is studied in this paper in order to establish a dynamic modelling and simulation method. As a result of using geometric parameters, the piston cylinder volume change was calculated, and the heat transfer equation, the... Read More about Dynamic Modelling and Experimental Validation of a Pneumatic Radial Piston Motor.

Experimentally Validated Modelling of an Oscillating Diaphragm Compressor for Chemisorption Energy Technology Applications (2023)
Journal Article
Najjaran, A., Meibodi, S., Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Roskilly, T. (2023). Experimentally Validated Modelling of an Oscillating Diaphragm Compressor for Chemisorption Energy Technology Applications. Energies, 16(1), Article 489. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010489

This study presents a detailed dynamic modelling and generic simulation method of an oscillating diaphragm compressor for chemisorption energy technology applications. The geometric models of the compressor were developed step by step, including the... Read More about Experimentally Validated Modelling of an Oscillating Diaphragm Compressor for Chemisorption Energy Technology Applications.

Solid–Gas Sorption System for Ammonia Storage and Delivery Driven by Engine Waste Heat for NOx Reduction of Diesel Engine (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, C., Chen, S., Jiang, L., Wang, Y., & Bao, H. (2022). Solid–Gas Sorption System for Ammonia Storage and Delivery Driven by Engine Waste Heat for NOx Reduction of Diesel Engine. Energies, 15(22), Article 8376. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228376

A new design of a sorption-selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is proposed to improve ammonia storage density and meet the ammonia demand for high NOx conversion efficiency at a relatively lower temperature (<100 °C) compared to urea-SCR syste...

Compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption integrated with solar photovoltaic-thermal collector for seasonal solar thermal energy storage (2022)
Journal Article
Thinsurat, K., Ma, Z., Roskilly, A. P., & Bao, H. (2022). Compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption integrated with solar photovoltaic-thermal collector for seasonal solar thermal energy storage. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 15, Article 100248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2022.100248

This paper studied the performance of a compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption energy storage (CATSES) system with a solar photovoltaic-thermal collector (PV/T) to support the domestic space and hot water heating. The heat from the PV/T drives e... Read More about Compressor-assisted thermochemical sorption integrated with solar photovoltaic-thermal collector for seasonal solar thermal energy storage.

Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification and Regeneration Process: Advancing Correlations for Moisture and Enthalpy Effectiveness (2022)
Journal Article
Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Ling-Chin, J., Bao, H., Smallbone, A. J., & Roskilly, A. P. (2022). Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification and Regeneration Process: Advancing Correlations for Moisture and Enthalpy Effectiveness. Applied Energy, 314, Article 118962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118962

The paper developed correlations for predicting moisture and enthalpy effectiveness of the liquid desiccant dehumidification and regeneration process. Experimental dehumidification and regeneration data available from the literature with different sy... Read More about Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification and Regeneration Process: Advancing Correlations for Moisture and Enthalpy Effectiveness.

Operation and performance of Brayton Pumped Thermal Energy Storage with additional latent storage (2022)
Journal Article
Albert, M., Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Roskilly, A. P. (2022). Operation and performance of Brayton Pumped Thermal Energy Storage with additional latent storage. Applied Energy, 312, Article 118700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118700

Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) is an increasingly attractive area of research due to its multidimensional advantages over other grid scale electricity storage technologies. This paper built a model and numerically studied the performance of an... Read More about Operation and performance of Brayton Pumped Thermal Energy Storage with additional latent storage.

Experimental evaluation of heat transfer performance under natural and forced convection around a phase change material encapsulated in various shapes (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Djakovic, U., Bao, H., & Torres, J. (2021). Experimental evaluation of heat transfer performance under natural and forced convection around a phase change material encapsulated in various shapes. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 44, Article 101025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2021.101025

Cold thermal energy storage can reduce peak electricity use in electric air conditioning systems as well as improve free space cooling, through convective heat transfer between a surrounding fluid (heat transfer fluid or air) and encapsulated phase c... Read More about Experimental evaluation of heat transfer performance under natural and forced convection around a phase change material encapsulated in various shapes.

A high-throughput computational screening of potential adsorbents for a thermal compression CO2 Brayton cycle (2021)
Journal Article
Du, Z., Deng, S., Zhao, L., Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Zhao, J. (2021). A high-throughput computational screening of potential adsorbents for a thermal compression CO2 Brayton cycle. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2021(5), 1415-1428. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se01538e

By employing heat rather than mechanical work to compress the working fluid, the thermal compression CO2 Brayton cycle (TC-CBC) has been considered as a promising pathway to the efficient utilization of low-grade thermal energy. However, finding reas... Read More about A high-throughput computational screening of potential adsorbents for a thermal compression CO2 Brayton cycle.

Advanced concepts (2020)
Book Chapter
Simons, S., Schmitt, J., Tom, B., Bao, H., Pettinato, B., & Pechulis, M. (2021). Advanced concepts. In K. Brun, T. Allison, & R. Dennis (Eds.), Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems (569-596). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819892-6.00010-1

New long-term and short-term storage concepts are continually being developed and improved upon to decrease capital costs and increase energy conversion efficiencies. Many of the novel ideas described here are based on existing technologies, but take... Read More about Advanced concepts.

Electricity-assisted thermochemical sorption system for seasonal solar energy storage (2020)
Journal Article
Ma, Z., Bao, H., & Roskilly, A. P. (2020). Electricity-assisted thermochemical sorption system for seasonal solar energy storage. Energy Conversion and Management, 209, Article 112659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2020.112659

The present paper investigated the seasonal solar thermal energy storage (SSTES) using solid-gas thermochemical sorption technology that has inherently combined function of heat pump and energy storage. The thermochemical reactions that can discharge... Read More about Electricity-assisted thermochemical sorption system for seasonal solar energy storage.

Techno-economic analysis of the thermal energy saving options for high-voltage direct current interconnectors (2019)
Journal Article
Giampieri, A., Ma, Z., Chin, J. L., Smallbone, A., Lyons, P., Khan, I., Hemphill, S., Roskilly, A. P., & Bao, H. (2019). Techno-economic analysis of the thermal energy saving options for high-voltage direct current interconnectors. Applied Energy, 247, 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.003

High-voltage direct current interconnection stations are increasingly used for long-distance electricity transport worldwide, due to efficiency and economic reasons. The identification and evaluation of cost-effective waste heat sources appropriate f... Read More about Techno-economic analysis of the thermal energy saving options for high-voltage direct current interconnectors.