- Thermal batteries for industrial heat
- Sand can heat up to 600 C and store heat for month
- Australia’s MGA startup interviewed by Engineering with Rosie
- Rondo thermal bricks store industrial heat up to 1500 C – lose less than 1% heat per day
- Mobile heat blocks
- This one is just BONKERS!
Thermal batteries for industrial heat
Different industrial sectors need different levels of heat, from cooking and boiling water, to middle range temperatures around 600 degrees to really high, metal-melting temperatures above a thousand degrees C! I’m a visual learner – so rather than pages of text – I recommend watching 16 minutes of Engineer Rosie Barns explaining these sectors and their requirements.
Sand can heat up to 600 C and store heat for month
Good for New Urban districts connected up with heating systems, and some lower grade heat industrial tasks
Australia’s MGA startup interviewed by Engineering with Rosie
Rondo thermal bricks store industrial heat up to 1500 C – lose less than 1% heat per day
John O’Donnell from Rondo
Dave Borlace from Just Have a Think
Also hear the August 2023 Energy Insiders podcast when the team interview Tom Geiser from Rondo Energy. Bottom line? His thermal bricks store heat at about 1500 degrees C! And they only lose 1% of their heat per day. If an industrial process requires more heat, they might either link to the national grid for more power, or build more solar and thermal batteries out at some remote site.
Mobile heat blocks
This one is just BONKERS!
This one uses liquid metal tin that feeds thermal energy into thermo-photovoltaic cells dipped in the molten tin!
But even if it doesn’t pan out – some of the tech involved might help other industrial heat processes go renewable. And if it does pan out…
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