Experimental Investigation on Melting of Paraffin in Latent Thermal Energy Storage
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahe.k.210202.028How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- latent thermal energy storage, experimental investigation, melting of paraffin
- Abstract
This paper presents an experimental research of melting of paraffin inside a latent thermal energy storage. Experimental setup consists of a water-water heat pump, hot and cold water tanks and latent storage tank. Latent heat storage is a shell-and-tube type tank, consisting of 19 concentric tubes with eight equidistant longitudinal fins. A set of 30 thermocouples has been placed at various positions longitudinally and radially throughout the paraffin-side of the storage to monitor the timewise temperature changes during melting, while additional two thermocouples have been placed at water inlet and outlet positions. Data acquisition system, linked with a personal computer, was used for acquiring, processing and storing measured data. Experimental research has been performed in the Laboratory for thermal measurements at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering. A set of experiments, with different water inlet temperatures, has been performed. Transient temperature changes of phase-change material (PCM) for different water inlet temperatures, and the amount of stored thermal energy have been analyzed and compared.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mateo Kirincic AU - Anica Trp AU - Kristian Lenic AU - Igor Wolf PY - 2021 DA - 2021/02/04 TI - Experimental Investigation on Melting of Paraffin in Latent Thermal Energy Storage BT - Proceedings of the 14th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference 2020 (IRES 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 193 EP - 198 SN - 2589-4943 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahe.k.210202.028 DO - 10.2991/ahe.k.210202.028 ID - Kirincic2021 ER -