A numerical analysis of a magnetocaloric refrigerator with a 16-layer regenerator

Zhang, Mingkan; Abdelaziz, Omar; Momen, Ayyoub Mehdizadeh; Abu-Heiba, Ahmad

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14406-9

Title: A numerical analysis of a magnetocaloric refrigerator with a 16-layer regenerator

Journal Article · Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14406-9· OSTI ID:1407793

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

A numerical analysis was conducted to study a room temperature magnetocaloric refrigerator with a 16-layer parallel plates active magnetic regenerator (AMR). Sixteen layers of LaFeMnSiH having different Curie temperatures were employed as magnetocaloric material (MCM) in the regenerator. Measured properties data was used. A transient one dimensional (1D) model was employed, in which a unique numerical method was developed to significantly accelerate the simulation speed of the multi-layer AMR system. As a result, the computation speed of a multi-layer AMR case was very close to the single-layer configuration. The performance of the 16-layer AMR system in different frequencies and utilizations has been investigated using this model. To optimize the layer length distribution of the 16-layer MCMs in the regenerator, a set of 137 simulations with different MCM distributions based on the Design of Experiments (DoE) method was conducted and the results were analyzed. The results show that the 16-layer AMR system can operate up to 84% of Carnot cycle COP at a temperature span of 41 K, which cannot be obtained using an AMR with fewer layers. Here, the DoE results indicate that for a 16-layer AMR system, the uniform distribution is very close to the optimized design.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1407793

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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