This study proposes the use of a double-pipe helical-coiled tube as an innovative well-performing phase change material (PCM) containment design for latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems. A 3D numerical model considering the convection effects

An experimental study is presented on the energy and exergy assessment of integrating reflectors with an evacuated tube solar collector-heat pipe (ETSC-HP) system on its thermal energy storage. The impact of using upper, lower, and upper and lower (two) reflectors on the thermal energy storage, input energy, and

A schematic diagram of a TES showing the components is illustrated in Fig. 2 g. 2 (1) shows the container covered with the working fluid coil and the thermocouples that fitted on the top plate in order to monitor the temperature profile. Fig. 2 (2) shows the heat pipe that is used to transfer heat to the PCM and Fig. 2 (3) shows the container filled

The utility model discloses a harmonica tube, the harmonica tube is flat tube-shaped, the heat transfer passageway has inside the harmonica tube, the harmonica tube includes

Involving thermal storage technique combined with renewable energy sources was implemented over the last years to maintain the balance of request and need of heat. To save the radiation heating, concentrated solar collectors should be joined with thermal storage unit and for growing the efficiency of such system, new star-spline fins

Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) utilizing heat pipes or fins is investigated experimentally. Photographic observations, melting and solidification rates, and PCM

Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage has the benefit of greater high-energy densities at nearly constant temperatures among the three thermal energy storage systems. These benefits are assigned to phase change material use; however, those materials possess low thermal conductivity that degrades their thermal performance in

A three-dimensional transient numerical model of a micro heat pipe array-based evacuated solar collector with integrated energy storage was developed and validated against available literature. The thermal performance of a micro heat pipe array evacuated solar collector is then investigated using the validated model.

Concept and approach. The "open-sorption pipe" is a simple but a unique concept consisting of an outer and an inner (perforated) cylindrical shell and the sorption material filled in between. Its basic working principal is illustrated in Fig. 2. As seen, air enters the perforated pipe from the open end at the bottom.

Designing the latent thermal energy storage system with embedded heat pipes to meet these techno-economic targets, therefore, forms the focus of the present study. While modeling of the LTES system with heat pipes has been reported in the literature and provides insight on HP-TES operation [14], [15], a systematic study to

Section snippets Design variable This article adopted the design of the vertical pipe intake-outlet at the upper reservoir of Xilongchi pumped storage plant in China as the baseline, which is shown in Fig. 1. In the generation mode, water in

Shafieian et al. (2018) reviewed the developments and applications of HPSC, and the importance of heat pipe in heat recovery using heat exchangers and renewable energy systems are discussed. Heat

Concentrating solar power plants (CSPs) are being explored as the leading source of renewable energy for future power generation. Storing sun''s energy in the form of latent thermal energy of a phase change material (PCM) is desirable for use on demand including times when solar energy is unavailable. Considering a latent thermal energy

This paper reviews the use of heat pipes in conventional and rapid response PCM and liquid or cold storage applications and introduces some novel concepts that might overcome current

This experiment is conducted to study the temperature distributions of evaporator, condenser and PCM during the heating as well as cooling. The cooling

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Fig. 1 (a) illustrates a schematic diagram of the double-pipe LHTES unit which is selected from Idris et al. [29].The double-pipe LHTES unit consists of a circular inner tube of 23 mm diameter, an outer shell diameter of

For the thermal performance enhancement of electronic components under intermittent high heat load, this paper proposes a gravity heat pipe with heat storage (GHPHS) that

Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) utilizing heat pipes or fins is investigated experimentally. Photographic observations, melting and solidification rates, and PCM energy storage quantities are reported. Heat pipe effectiveness is defined and used to quantify the relative performance of heat pipe-assisted and fin-assisted

The orifice height and the diffuser angle have proved important for the hydraulic characteristic in the vertical pipe intake-outlet [42].However, parameters of the diffuser was not fully considered before, so both the short semi-axis a and the long semi-axis b would be explored in this article.

Experimental and Theoretical Analysis for the Performance of Evacuated Tube Collector Integrated with Helical Finned Heat Pipes using PCM Energy Storage Energy, Volume 206, 2020, Article 118166 Mohamed A. Essa, , Mohamed A. Ahmed

If the total solar energy storage rate is divided by the pile length, however, the shorter energy piles are superior over the longer energy piles (see Fig. 15 (d)). The maximum daily average rate of solar energy storage decreases from as high as 150 W/m for the case with L = 10 m to about 35 W/m as the pile length increases to 50 m.

This study presents a thermal network model for evaluating heat transfer enhancement in a high-temperature latent heat storage unit incorporating finned heat pipes.The objective of this heat enhanced latent heat storage system was to improve the thermal performance of concentrating solar power plants..

Energy Storage. The Office of Electricity''s (OE) Energy Storage Division accelerates bi-directional electrical energy storage technologies as a key component of the future-ready grid. The Division supports applied materials development to identify safe, low-cost, and earth-abundant elements that enable cost-effective long-duration storage.

Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time [1] to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production. A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery. Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential

Through optimizing the flow channel structure of the air-cooled battery module, this study found that using a harmonica pipe with a larger heat transfer area,

Heat pipe effectiveness was defined and used to quantify the relative performance of heat pipe-assisted PCM storage systems. Both experimental and numerical investigations were performed to determine the efficiency of the system in thermal storage enhancement.

This issue affects the rate of energy storage (charging/discharging) in PCMs. Many researchers have proposed different methods to cope with this problem in thermal energy

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Energy Storage. Energy storage is a technology that holds energy at one time so it can be used at another time. Building more energy storage allows renewable energy sources like wind and solar to power more of our

One of them used heat pipes to assist the melting and solidification process of PCM during thermal energy storage process and showed good performance [2], [3], [4]. As a high effective heat transfer device, heat pipes have been employed for situations that needed to improve heat transfer efficiency, including LHTES system.

1. Introduction1.1. Research background and significance Humanity is in the midst of a real global energy crisis, and sustainable energy security can only be achieved if the transition to clean and sustainable energy is accelerated [1].According to the Gas Market Report, Q4-2022 released by the International Energy Agency [2], Europe,

Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants harvest solar energy in the form of heat that can be stored in thermal energy storage devices and is ultimately used to produce electricity. The need for energy storage is due to the intermittent availability of solar irradiation and to provide a balance between the supplied loads and the demand (load

The utility model relates to the technical field of power battery systems, in particular to a harmonica tubular heat exchange side plate for a square battery module, which

Solar energy is one of the unlimited sustainable energy resources that can be stored for different applications by using latent heat thermal energy storage systems.

Zhang, Gao et al. (2020) put forward a method combining CFD, response surface method and genetic algorithm to analyze and optimize the hydraulic performance of the vertical pipe intake-outlet of a

The charging and discharging processes of a latent heat thermal energy storage system assisted by a heat pipe network was experimentally studied. Rubitherm RT55 was chosen as the phase change material (PCM) and was enclosed within a