Abstract—The traditional electricity operation in solar thermal plants is designed to operate on a single path initiating at power plant and executes at the consumer. Due to lack of energy storage facilities during this operation, a decrease in the efficiency is often observed with the power plant performance. This paper reviews the significance of energy storage in supply design and elaborates various methods that can be adopted in this regard which are equally cost effective and environmental friendly. Moreover various parameters in thermal storage technique are also critically analysed to clarify the pros and cons in this facility. Discussing the different thermal storage system, their technical and economical evaluation has also been reviewed.

Index Terms—thermal energy storage, sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, thermochemical heat storage

Cite: Abdullah M. Al-Shaalan and Tauqeer Ahmed Shaikh, "An Overview in Energy Conservation of Thermal Storage Techniques for Solar Thermal Applications," Jounal of Automation and Control Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 237-240, June, 2015. doi: 10.12720/joace.3.3.237-240