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Electrified Thermal Solutions - Model Joule Hive - Thermal Battery
The Joule Hive Thermal Battery is an advanced energy storage solution distinct from conventional chemical or electric-based systems. This innovative battery utilizes electrically-conductive firebricks to store energy in the form of heat. The system converts intermittent or clean electricity into heat, which can be distributed to industrial processes via air or gas. Unlike traditional methods using bricks or rocks with heating elements, the Joule Hive integrates its bricks to serve as heating elements, thermal storage, and heat exchangers, achieving higher peak temperatures and durability. It employs commodity materials for cost-effectiveness and reliability, eliminating the need for unique manufacturing processes and minimizing supply chain risks. Its modular design allows for scalability, accommodating various industrial needs through innovative configurations such as modular stacks for existing systems or tall towers for extensive heat provision.
Our Joule Hive batteries store energy just like any other battery, except we store it in the form of heat instead of electricity, momentum or chemical bonds. First, we take in electricity (often clean, often intermittent) and convert and store the electricity as heat through our electrically-conductive firebricks. Then we blow air or another gas through the system to deliver heat to any industrial process.
Other thermal battery approaches today often use bricks or rocks to store heat, but rely on traditional heating elements (think toaster wire) to generate and then transfer heat to the storage media. This limits peak temperature and durability, thereby increasing cost and decreasing reliability.
Our Joule Hive Thermal Battery is intentionally simple—the bricks inside our system triple as the heating element, thermal storage media, and heat exchanger. By stacking our electric bricks in a pattern with traditional firebricks, we’re able to build massive three dimensional heated circuits that can provide near flame-temperature heat to any industrial process. What could be simpler (or lower cost)?
What’s more, our Joule Hives are purpose built for affordability and improved reliability. We use common, commodity materials and work with traditional firebrick manufacturers. This removes the need for new manufacturing processes, eliminates possible supply chain delays, and ensures this new energy storage system is reliable and ready to scale from day one.
By removing traditional heating elements, we also free our systems for unique configurations to meet industrial needs. We can stack bricks in traditional shipping containers for modular, drop-in supplements to deliver hot gas to existing systems. We can stack bricks 45 meters high in towers to provide GWhs of heat as a synthetic flame. We can even line furnace walls to provide direct radiative heat.