Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.123262
Keywords
Phase change heat transfer; Molten salt; Ceramic; Medium temperature; Visualization; Thermal energy storage
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFA0702300]
- Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau [2019B10042]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52006133]
- Office of China Post- doctoral Council [PC2020051]
- H2020-MSCA-RISE [778104]
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In this study, an open-cell SiC ceramic foam was integrated with solar salt to enhance heat transfer and prevent corrosion issues. Experimental and simulation results demonstrated that the ceramic skeleton remarkably enhanced heat transfer in molten salt, providing crucial benchmark data for system design and optimization.
Molten salts have been widely used as energy storage materials in medium- and high-temperature thermal energy storage. However, pure salt commonly suffers from low thermal conductivity and many conventional methods of heat transfer enhancement do not apply due to the serious corrosion and the extremely high temperature. In the current study, the open-cell SiC ceramic foam was integrated with solar salt (60wt% NaNO3 + 40wt% KNO3) to enhance the heat transfer of salt and avoid severe corrosion is-sues. A visualised experiment was for the first time conducted to investigate the melting phase change heat transfer in the ceramic foam/molten salt composite phase change material (CPCM). A representative elementary volume (REV)-scale simulation was simultaneously performed and the computational results were compared with experimental data. It is found that the conduction-friendly ceramic skeleton remark-ably enhances the heat transfer in molten salt, especially in the region far away from the heat source. The spatial temperature difference across the composite is decreased in both horizontal and vertical directions and the local superheating is mitigated. The enhancement of heat conduction is greater than the suppression of natural convection; as a result, the melting rate of the CPCM is increased by 41.3%. This study provides crucial benchmark data of phase change heat transfer for medium-temperature thermal energy storage and paves the way for system design and optimization. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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