Thomas Sottile
Username
Thomas Sottile
Proposer First Name
Thomas
Proposer Email
Tom.Sottile@sunamp.com
Proposer Last Name
Sottile
Proposer Company/Organization
Sunamp Projects Inc
Proposer Phone
(203) 349-1386
Proposer Job Title
General Manger
Boston 2023 Areas of Focus
Proposer Additional Info
Passionate about reducing climate change
Proposed Session Description
Building thermal energy demand represents almost 50% of the final energy building demand in the US, so why are we focusing our attention on the most expensive technology instead of looking to the safest and cheapest storage type? Thermal storage is one way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shave peak demand on gas and electricity networks, two of the biggest challenges in the US energy sector.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
Thermal storage can be applied at the local level. This allows everyone to take advantage of its benefits.
Learning Objectives
Understanding what Phase Change Materials are.
Understanding the advantages of using Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage.
Understand on how thermal storage can support to achieve decarbonization goals by seeing case studies results
Understand how thermal storage can help in the grid reliability
Has this session been presented before?
No
Additional Comments
Presentation for New York chapter of ASHRAE
Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 2 - Some prior knowledge helpful.
Session Format
Presentation followed by facilitated discussion or breakout groups
Session Format Details
30 minute presentation followed by audience discussion
Recommended Length
60-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2023
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
thermal storage at the local level is beneficial to heating and cooling distrit networks
Reviewer 1
Schow, Mark
Reviewer 2
Carlson, Kurt
Proposal #
146
Committee Decision
Being Considered
Presenters
Full Description
The key innovation of the solution is Sunamp thermal batteries use phase change materials (PCM) to store energy for domestic hot water, heating, steam, and cooling applications. Giving more technical information about the technology, melting, and freezing a PCM can stores 3-4 times as much energy in latent heat as the sensible heat of water in a typical thermal storage (i.e., thermal buffering) applications.
Sunamp batteries can be filled with a wide range of PCM as appropriate to the application requirement. This means that in practice Sunamp technology is an integrator technology allowing the cross-vector applications as outlined in the diagram.
The benefits of this to the energy system is as follows:
• Demand shifting to support electricity and gas grid networks (in the future hydrogen) providing resilience.
• Capturing surplus (grid & on-site) renewable electricity generation – decoupling generation from demand.
• Capturing waste heat thereby improving overall energy efficiency.
• Improving the resilience of the industrial & commercial processes to blackouts.
In comparison with conventional commercial electrical storage, the Sunamp have the following advantages:
a) Lifespan tested for over 40.000 cycles (50 years when cycled 2 times/day).
b) Sunamp batteries can be charged from multiple thermal sources including boilers, heat pumps, waste heat, electricity (grid or embedded), steam, glycol/water, thermal solar panels and recovered heat, chillers.
c) At least 2.5 times cheaper than an electric battery.
d) Non-flammable substances in the PCM composition.
e) Non-toxic substances in the PCM composition.
f) Derived from sustainable supply chains.