CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

All timings are in BST.

Wednesday 12th October
16:00 - 18:00     Session 1: Hybrid opening plenary - live at the Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham and Virtual

Recent advances in hydrogen storage - science & technology
Nigel Brandon, Imperial College, London, UK

Recent advances in Carnot batteries – science & technology
André Thess, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, University of Stuttgart, Germany


Thursday 13th October
10.50 - 11:00                Welcome
Speaker TBC
11:00 - 13:00Session 2: Recent advances in Energy Storage

2.1: Recent advances in electrochemical energy storage, focusing on lithium-ion, sodium-ion and sodium-sulphur batteries

2.2: Recent advances in electrochemical energy storage, focusing on flow batteries

2.3 Base load generation and network with storage, including nuclear, centralised energy grids, localised networks (e.g., districted heating/cooling), and large integrated plants of foundation industry (steel, cement, glass, chemical etc.)

2.3: Recent advances in thermo-mechanical energy storage, focusing on thermal (heat & cold) energy storage, liquid air, pumped heat electrical storage, gravity based, novel pumped hydro

2.4: Recent advances in thermo-mechanical energy storage, focusing on compressed air

13:00 - 13:30Break
13:30 - 15:00                 
Session 3: Application Through Integration

3.1 Renewable generation with storage, including wind, solar, wave, tidal, bioenergy, and geothermal

3.2: Recent advances in electrochemical energy storage, focusing on flow batteries

3.3 Applications of AI to energy storage, including materials discovery, management, control and emulation of storage, reliability, predictive maintenance, digital twinning, as well as AI driven life cycle analysis

3.4 Cold storage and sustainable cooling

3.5 Energy storage for transport infrastructure


Friday 14th October
10.50 - 11:00   Welcome
Speaker TBC
11:00 - 13:00Session 4: Whole System Approach & Policy

4.1 Role, value and policy of energy storage

4.2 Life cycle analysis and sustainability of energy storage                                                                                                                          

4.3 Techno-economics and feasibility

4.4 Medium & long duration storage

13:00 - 13:30Break
13:30 - 14:15    
Session 5: Closing Plenary

Large-scale electricity storage
Chris Llewellyn Smith, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK