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Numerical Investigation on Charging of Thermal Energy Storage for Medium Temperature Applications

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Providing a sustainable energy storage solution for the whole day could be helpful for carbon mitigation in the environment. This study showed a medium temperature thermal energy storage (TES) which can be used for purposes required a temperature in the range of 130–240 °C. In this study, a cascaded latent thermal energy storage system was used with three encapsulated organic phase change materials (PCMs). Variation in temperature and liquid fraction of the TES was studied to investigate the charging of TES. Furthermore, an attempt was also made to optimize the working conditions for the system by varying the inlet temperature conditions. The thermal performance of the TES was increased significantly by 43.33% with an increase of inlet HTF temperature by 40 °C.

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  1. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Gaurav Tiwari

  2. National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Anish Malan & Vikrant Yadav

  3. Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, Punjab, India

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xianguo Li

  2. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

    Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Rohit Singh Lather

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Tiwari, G., Malan, A., Yadav, V., Gakkhar, N. (2023). Numerical Investigation on Charging of Thermal Energy Storage for Medium Temperature Applications. In: Li, X., Rashidi, M.M., Lather, R.S., Raman, R. (eds) Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6945-4_19

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