Numerical analysis of the thermal behaviour of a shell-and-tube heat storage unit using phase change materials

By Hamid Ait Adine, H. Qarnia. 2009

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Internal and external fin heat transfer enhancement technique for latent heat thermal energy storage in triplex tube heat exchangers (2013, methodology): “Several researchers have studied the heat transfer enhancement in PCMs, including finned tubes [16,17], insertion of a metal matrix to the PCM [18,19], using multitubes [20], using bubble agitation in PCMs [21], using a PCM dispersed with high conductivity particles, and employing multiple families ”
Heat storage materials, geometry and applications: A review (2017, methodology): “These heat storage units were cylindrical shell typewith single concentric [10,11] andmultiple tubes for HTF flow [12], Rectangular shell withmultiple tubes for HTF flow [13], Triplex tube with PCM in between two sided HTF flow [14] etc.”
Review of thermal energy storage for air conditioning systems (2012, methodology): “Several researchers have studied the heat transfer enhancement in PCMs including finned tubes [20,28] insertion of metal matrix to the PCM [37,38], using multitubes, shell and tube heat exchanger [39,40], using bubble agitation in PCMs [23], using PCM dispersed with high conductivity particles, and ”
Experimental study of melting and solidification of PCM in a triplex tube heat exchanger with fins (2014, methodology): “The other enhancement method for the heat ransfer process by maintaining a constant temperature difference etween the PCM and the HTF involves the use of multiple families f PCMs, which are packed in the decreasing order of their melting oints in the flow direction of the thermal storage [6,7].”
An experimental investigation of shell and tube latent heat storage for solar dryer using paraffin wax as heat storage material (2016, background): “Adine and El Qarnia [18] reported numerical study of melting of PCM in latent heat storage unit.”
Melting of PCM in a thermal energy storage unit: Numerical investigation and effect of nanoparticle enhancement (2013, background): “Similar results have been also reported in [33].”