Experimental Analysis of Salt Hydrate Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System With Porous Aluminum Fabric and Salt Hydrate as Phase Change Material With Enhanced Stability and Supercooling

Kumar, Navin; Von Ness, Ryan; Chavez, Reynaldo; Banerjee, Debjyoti; Muley, Arun; Stoia, Michael

doi:10.1115/1.4048122

Title: Experimental Analysis of Salt Hydrate Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System With Porous Aluminum Fabric and Salt Hydrate as Phase Change Material With Enhanced Stability and Supercooling

Journal Article · Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Energy Resources Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048122· OSTI ID:1649546

Kumar, Navin ^[1]; Von Ness, Ryan ^[2]; Chavez, Reynaldo ^[2]; Banerjee, Debjyoti ^[2]; Muley, Arun ^[3]; Stoia, Michael ^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO (United States)

Phase change materials (PCMs), especially salt hydrates possess high volumetric energy storage capacity in their transition temperature range. These materials are used in applications where it is necessary to store thermal energy due to temporary load shift between demand and availability. Thus, possible applications are HVAC, recovery of waste heat, and defense thermal management. Despite salt hydrates potential, the practical feasibility of latent heat storage with salt hydrates is limited due to low power rating, supercooling, phase segregation, and long-term stability. Its low power rating and long-term stability limits its application in most applications. This work experimentally validates the stability and thermal performance of a compact heat exchanger charged with salt hydrate during melting and freezing. The compact heat exchanger was designed with fins on both the heat transfer fluid (HTF) and salt hydrate PCM side. The thermal performance of the latent heat thermal energy storage system (LHTESS) was evaluated for various operating conditions. The results show that LHTESS could achieve an average heat transfer coefficient of 124 and 87 W/(m2 K) during melting and solidification, respectively. The stability of the system in suppressing supercooling was validated over 800 cycles with nucleating agent and active homogenous nucleation techniques. The supercooling was reduced to 3 °C with zinc hydroxyl nitrate as nucleating agent and less than 1 °C with the active homogenous nucleation technique. The LHTESS showed less than 6% degradation in energy storage capacity over 800 cycles.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1649546

Journal Information:: Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 143, Issue 4; ISSN 0195-0738

Publisher:: ASMECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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