Credit: Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne Mechanical Engineer Wenhua Yu installs a cylinder of high-conductivity foam into a prototype container as former postdoctoral fellow Taeil Kim, makes adjustments to a heat transfer loop in the background. Argonne researchers received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to scale up and demonstrate their novel thermal energy storage system, which efficiently stores solar energy as heat for later use generating electricity. Total project funding is $1.6 million and includes an industry cost sharing arrangement.