Latent Heat Thermal Storage Using Pcm
Latent Heat Thermal Storage Using Phase Change Materials (PCM)
Aniruthan .M.E
ABSTRACT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anand Institute of Higher Technology, Chennai.
Various methods are employed in production of energy throughout the globe. Some prove as perennial resource, however many of them undergoes many loses in the intermediate conversion process from initial stage to the final stage of power production. Also supply and demand don’t quite meet their ends often. To reduce this mismatch storage systems are employed in almost all the mechanisms from small flywheels to high efficient storage systems in spacecrafts. Though storage system is a vast medium, thermal energy storage concepts and ideas are presented in this paper. Thermal energy storage is becoming a very attractive means of storing and retrieving thermal energy. TES using Phase changing materials (PCM), pros and cons of using it are discussed here. Since TES is a vast division, this paper doesn’t cover everything but it gives a brief introduction about what is thermal energy storage, its types, methods of storing, and it’s drawbacks [1]. This paper also deals with the processes involved in analyzing those storage systems for its physical property changes using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Keywords: Thermal energy storage, Heat recovery system, PCM, Latent heat thermal storage 1 Introduction Energy is an important entity for the economic development of any country. Considering the environmental protection and also in the context of great uncertainty over future energy supplies, attention is concentrated on the utilization of sustainable energy sources and the energy conservation methodologies. Concentrated solar thermal power generation is becoming a very attractive renewable energy production system among all the different renewable options, as it has a better potential for dispatch ability. Solar thermal power plants produce electricity in the same way as other conventional power
Aniruthan .M.E
ABSTRACT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anand Institute of Higher Technology, Chennai.
Various methods are employed in production of energy throughout the globe. Some prove as perennial resource, however many of them undergoes many loses in the intermediate conversion process from initial stage to the final stage of power production. Also supply and demand don’t quite meet their ends often. To reduce this mismatch storage systems are employed in almost all the mechanisms from small flywheels to high efficient storage systems in spacecrafts. Though storage system is a vast medium, thermal energy storage concepts and ideas are presented in this paper. Thermal energy storage is becoming a very attractive means of storing and retrieving thermal energy. TES using Phase changing materials (PCM), pros and cons of using it are discussed here. Since TES is a vast division, this paper doesn’t cover everything but it gives a brief introduction about what is thermal energy storage, its types, methods of storing, and it’s drawbacks [1]. This paper also deals with the processes involved in analyzing those storage systems for its physical property changes using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Keywords: Thermal energy storage, Heat recovery system, PCM, Latent heat thermal storage 1 Introduction Energy is an important entity for the economic development of any country. Considering the environmental protection and also in the context of great uncertainty over future energy supplies, attention is concentrated on the utilization of sustainable energy sources and the energy conservation methodologies. Concentrated solar thermal power generation is becoming a very attractive renewable energy production system among all the different renewable options, as it has a better potential for dispatch ability. Solar thermal power plants produce electricity in the same way as other conventional power
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