Publication result detail

An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems

CHARVÁT, P.; KLIMEŠ, L.; MAUDER, T.

Original Title

An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems

English Title

An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Phase change materials (PCMs) are materials with a high latent heat of melting. The PCMs can be used in various thermal storage applications and one of them is thermal storage in solar air systems. Air-based solar thermal systems are not as common as the water-based solar systems but they can be rather effectively employed for space heating and other purposes. A general problem with the solar thermal systems is the need for thermal storage in order to balance supply and demand of heat over a certain period of time. A numerical and experimental investigation of the performance of an air-PCM heat storage unit is described in this paper. The unit comprises of aluminum containers filled with paraffin-based PCM.

English abstract

Phase change materials (PCMs) are materials with a high latent heat of melting. The PCMs can be used in various thermal storage applications and one of them is thermal storage in solar air systems. Air-based solar thermal systems are not as common as the water-based solar systems but they can be rather effectively employed for space heating and other purposes. A general problem with the solar thermal systems is the need for thermal storage in order to balance supply and demand of heat over a certain period of time. A numerical and experimental investigation of the performance of an air-PCM heat storage unit is described in this paper. The unit comprises of aluminum containers filled with paraffin-based PCM.

Keywords

phase change material, heat exchanger, solar systems

Key words in English

phase change material, heat exchanger, solar systems

Authors

CHARVÁT, P.; KLIMEŠ, L.; MAUDER, T.

RIV year

2013

Released

26.06.2012

Publisher

Vysoké učení technické v Brně

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-4529-1

Book

Sborník příspěvků 31. mezinárodní konference Setkání kateder mechaniky tekutin a termomechaniky

Pages from

75

Pages to

78

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT92819,
  author="Pavel {Charvát} and Lubomír {Klimeš} and Tomáš {Mauder}",
  title="An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems",
  booktitle="Sborník příspěvků 31. mezinárodní konference Setkání kateder mechaniky tekutin a termomechaniky",
  year="2012",
  number="1",
  pages="75--78",
  publisher="Vysoké učení technické v Brně",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-4529-1"
}