​Thermal Battery

  • World’s first-ever thermal battery plant was inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh.
  • Conventional battery technology is based on the system of charging/discharging cycles that are driven by electricity. In these batteries electric charges are transferred between electrodes and charge gets stored in the process.
  • Thermal batteries, on the other hand, use thermal energy i.e. the energy created by temperature differences to operate.
  • It consists of two parts: a cool zone known as sink, and a hot source called source which are made of phase-changing materials (PCMs), which can change their state of matter on the basis of a physical/chemical reaction.
  • When the sink of a thermal ....
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