Alejandro Calderón, Camila Barreneche, Karla Hernández-Valle, Esther Galindo, Mercè Segarra, A.Inés Fernández
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.01.050
Solar Energy, 2020, Vol 200, Pages 37-50
Quartile Q1, Impact 4.608
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of all the history of Thermal Energy storage (TES) research and development, by using bibliometric methods. Identifying different technology tendencies and developments, as well as the most productive and influential research, can be interesting for everyone involved on TES development. Regional particularities, policies, financing efforts and economic growth have been evaluated from the point of view of knowledge production. Also, technological maturity has been observed according to the most dynamic knowledge areas for each specific technology.
Web of Science Core Collection database was used to search the most relevant scientific articles related to TES. Only articles and reviews were considered in this analysis, resulting on 17,382 papers published during 109 years. First results from the analysis of these data show that a positive exponential development of TES research has been made on the last decades, especially since 2004.
This trend is in accordance with the renewable energies explosive development, the climate change fight culture, and the implementation of energy efficiency policies. Other relevant result comes from the analysis of TES research by country-regional metrics, relevant authors, journals, funding initiatives, regional cooperation and other relevant information have been obtained.
Funding
The work was partially funded by the Spanish Government ENE2015- 64117-C5-2-R (MINECO/FEDER), and the Catalan Government (2017 SGR118). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research And Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia, and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONACYT from México for the doctoral grants 546692 and 522067.
Research category: Energy
Doctoral Thesis: Study of solid particle materials as high temperature Thermal Energy Storage and Heat Transfer Fluid for Concentrating Solar Power