FEC - School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
HYSTORE Event

Dr. Mohammad Saffari secures €400,000 in funding

HYSTORE Event
The Faculty of Engineering and Computing is delighted to announce that Dr. Mohammad Saffari from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at DCU was announced as one of the HYSTORE project work package leaders and as such secured €400,000 in funding.

The HYSTORE project was launched in Brussels, Belgium, this past week. The project will open doors and clear the way for pioneering thermal energy storage leaders in Europe to further advance and implement thermal energy storage solutions for buildings and energy systems to achieve zero-carbon-emission goals.

 

HYSTORE stands for “Hybrid services from advanced thermal energy storage systems”. It is a Horizon Europe project with around €7.5 million in secured funding led by the project coordinator DR. Angel Font from ARCbcn, consulting engineers and funded by CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency.

 

This project aims to develop and demonstrate innovative concepts and services based on compact Thermal Energy Storage (“TES”) systems for cooling, heating, domestic hot water, electricity load shifting and fighting climate change. It also seeks to promote technologies that decarbonise the energy sector and improve the techno-economic performance of the integrated energy systems.

 

One of the main goals in HYSTORE will be developing and implementing high latent heat materials such novel phase change materials (PCM) and thermochemical materials (TCM) and components for overall energy optimisation of buildings and energy systems. Other important objectives of HYSTORE project are promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), equality, diversity, teaching, education, and social awareness of thermal storage solutions.

 

Eighteen partners from industry, academia, and recognised R&D centres from Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Romania, Belgium, and Ireland will collaborate to develop innovative, and sustainable integrated energy systems with advanced thermal energy storage systems.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Saffari!