Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 12, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en12173275
Keywords
thermal energy storage; phase change material; metal foam; heat transfer enhancement
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51536001, 51806046]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M630350]
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The energy transport inside a phase change material (PCM) based thermal energy storage system using metal foam as an enhancement technique is investigated numerically. The paraffin is used as the PCM and water as the heat transfer fluid (HTF). The transient heat transfer during the charging and discharging processes is solved, based on the volume averaged conservation equations. The flow in PCM/foam and HTF/foam composites is modelled by the Forchheimer-extended Darcy equation, while the two-temperature model is employed to account for the local thermal non-equilibrium effect between the foam matrix and fluid phase. The results show that the overall performance is greatly improved by inserting metal foam in both HTF and PCM sides. A nearly 84.9% decrease in the time needed for the total process is found compared with the case of pure PCM, and 40% compared with the case of metal foam insert only in the PCM side. Foam porosity and HTF inlet temperature greatly affect the dynamic heat storage/release process.
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