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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 3164-3172Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.01.083
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Metal hydride; Heat pump; Coupled heat and mass transfer
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A computational study of a metal hydride cooling system working with MmNi(4.6)Al(0.4)/MmNi(4.6)Fe(0.4) hydride pair is presented. The unsteady, two-dimensional mathematical model in an annular cylindrical configuration is solved numerically for predicting the time dependent conjugate heat and mass transfer characteristics between coupled reactors. The system of equations is solved by the fully implicit finite volume method (FVM). The effects of constant and variable wall temperature boundary conditions on the reaction bed temperature distribution, hydrogen concentration, and equilibrium pressures of the reactors are investigated. A dynamic correlation of the pressure-concentration-temperature plot is presented. At the given operating temperatures of 363/298/278 K (T-H/T-M/T-C), the cycle time for the constant and variable wall temperature boundary conditions of a single-stage and single-effect metal hydride system are found to be 1470.0 s and 1765.6 s, respectively. The computational results are compared with the experimental data reported in the literature for LaNi4.61Mn0.26Al0.13/La(0.6)y(0.4)Ni(4.8)Mn(0.2) hydride pair and a good agreement between the two was observed. (C) 2009 International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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