Startup recycles industrial solid waste into a high-temperature thermal energy storage

Seramic Materials, a start-up company supported by accelerator The Catalyst, has developed a solution to recycle industrial solid waste into a high-temperature thermal energy storage (TES) product, the company said in a statement. 

The product is called, ReThink Seramic – Flora, can store heat at temperatures up to 1250 degrees Celsius.  Therefore, thermal energy can be stored from processing heat in concentrated solar power (CSP) or industrial waste heat recovery systems, or from electricity in renewable energy systems such as solar photovoltaic, wind, or even excess grid electricity, the company explained.

"By replacing an expensive raw material with a waste locally generated, we are significantly cutting the cost of our ceramic products. Flora is a game changer in high-temperature applications over 600 C as up to now the bottleneck was the high cost of the ceramic material itself," Dr. Nicolas Calvet, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seramic Materials said in a statement.

The product is said to be made from recycled materials, in a 100 percent carbon-offset process.