Publication detail

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF AN AIR-PCM HEAT-STORAGE UNIT

MAUDER, T. CHARVÁT, P. OSTRÝ, M.

English title

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF AN AIR-PCM HEAT-STORAGE UNIT

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

Phase change materials (PCMs) are materials with a high latent heat of melting. The PCMs can be used in various thermal storage applications. One of them is thermal storage in solar air systems. The air-based solar thermal systems are not as common as the water-based solar systems but they can be rather effectively employed for space heating and other purposes. A general problem with the solar thermal systems is the need for thermal storage in order to balance supply and demand of heat over a certain period of time. This can be solve by using unit comprises of aluminum containers filled with paraffin-based PCM. In this paper is described both, the numerical simulations and the experimental investigation of an air-PCM heat storage unit. The simulation is based on coupling between the TRNSYS 17 and the MATLAB. The experiment contains laboratory heat exchanger which comprises 100 PCM panels. Both results are compared in order to validate numerical model. The results prove that use of the PCM in the heat exchanger has significant heat storage effect.

Keywords in English

heat exchanger, PCM, simulation

Released

2013-06-28

Publisher

IMT Ljubljana

Location

Ljubljana

ISSN

1580-2949

Journal

Materiali in Tehnologije

Volume

47

Number

3

Pages from–to

391–394

Pages count

4

BIBTEX


@article{BUT100351,
  author="Tomáš {Mauder} and Pavel {Charvát} and Milan {Ostrý}",
  title="EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF AN AIR-PCM HEAT-STORAGE UNIT",
  journal="Materiali in Tehnologije",
  year="2013",
  volume="47",
  number="3",
  pages="391--394",
  issn="1580-2949"
}