Best Poster Award, April 2024, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Congratulations to the team of University of Twente for winning the Best Poster Award at the 4TU Centre for Energy Community Day which was held on the 16th of April at Eenhoorn Meeting Center Amersfoort. An annual activity that serves as a connection platform for researchers among the four technical universities of the Netherlands. The poster describes the goal of the HERCULES project, and in particular the design of a lab-scale prototype of high-temperature thermochemical heat storage system with the aim of industrial heating applications. This is illustrated at the three levels of consideration in the project: 

• The system scale where the connection between the storage reactor and the renewable energy source, industry, and the community is depicted. 
• The reactor scale which shows the initial reactor design and important macroscopic considerations of the design, such as the placement of the heating elements, in- and outlets, and insulation.
• The material scale where the direct analysis of the various transport phenomena involved at the mesoscopic scale is illustrated in the interest of improving the understanding and storage potential of the reactor at the macroscopic level.