What is it about?
The demand for storing the solar energy is inevitably increasing nowadays due to the depletion of fossil fuels. The effective technology used to store solar energy is the latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) system. The LHTES system has been proven to be the most trusted and efficient technique for storing solar energy and can be used after sundown. The phase change material (PCM) is used to store and release the solar energy by undergoing the phase transformation from liquid state to solid state, respectively, and vice versa
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Why is it important?
The performance of PCM-based TES system could be improved by using high heat storage capacity PCM, particularly fatty acids which can undergo phase transformation without separation and by the use of metal fins in the PCM-encapsulated material. And also, no article has been found on the performance analysis of MgCl2·6H2O PCM-based TES system with the use of externally finned copper-encapsulated cylinder in the system. The selected PCM has higher thermal stability and life cycle time. This work is designed to store the solar energy in the TES system with MgCl2·6H2O as PCM
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Thermal energy storage unit for storage of solar thermal energy within a compact and effective system for the utilization later is the main motto.
Mr Saikrishnan V
Sathyabama University
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This page is a summary of: The thermal performance analyses of the solar energy-powered thermal energy storage system with MgCl2·6H2O as PCM, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s40430-019-2106-z.
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