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PCM Based Multi - Stage TES (Reference)
PCM Based Multi - Stage TES (Reference)
Abstract—Future energy systems face significant challenges in to the use of fossil fuels, which has been shown to be a main
resolving global energy trilemma of clean supply, affordability effect for global warming. Due to above reasons, large-scale
and security. This calls for high penetration of renewables and use of renewable energy sources, in particularly wind and solar,
electrification of heat and transportation. This paper concerns becomes more and more attractive. Key problems for such
thermal energy storage (TES), which is expected to play an energy sources are their intermittent nature, which makes the
important role in addressing the energy trilemma. It summarizes delivery of reliable power, on demand, a major challenge.
our recent work on this area, covering TES materials, modules Energy storage, particularly TES, has the potential to meet this
and applications. Our work on TES materials has been on challenge.
composite materials, including materials formulation and
properties characterization and fabrication. Our work on TES TES is a conventional technology which based on sensible
devices is covered the material formulation, exchanger thermal energy storage has been applied for centuries[3-5]. For
developing and TES system building. The experimental study example, electrical water heating has already been put forward
indicates that the thermal recovery efficiency is from 87~91% for as a solution for storing surplus wind power in the form of
each TES exchanger. A multistage system with graded use of the thermal energy with an aim to reduce the curtailment of wind
thermal energy can enhance the thermal recovery efficiency up to power generation. Hot water based storage has been applied in
92%. domestic homes for load control, peak shaving, leading to a
reduced bill for end-users [6]. Xydis indicates that heat and
Keywords—thermal energy storage(TES); phase change
materials(PCMs); composites PCMs module formulation; multi-
cold storage allows a high wind power integration through
stage TES converting excess renewable electricity into thermal or cold
energy, leading to energy savings and reducing the need for
building new coal-fired power plants [7]. Hughes simulated
I. INTRODUCTION converting electric energy to heat at off-peak time can reduce
China has promised to cut greenhouse gas emissions per electricity abondaned rate which is generated from the wind .
unit of GDP by 60-65% by 2030 from the 2005 levels. This It can decrese the greenhouse gas emissions as well [8]. Jones
implies a large extent of reduction in fossil fuel consumption, studied the potential of building thermal storage as a load
currently at ~65%, and therefore imposes a significant shifting technology The TES under consideration of this work
challenge for the nation. . A pathway for meeting such a is on phase change materials (PCMs). The principle of such
challenge is the so-called ‘Two-Replacement strategy’, namely, materials is due to enthalpy associated with reversible state
Clean Replacement - replacing fossil fuels with clean energy change of the materials.[9-10] Compared to traditional sensible
sources in energy production process, and Electricity heat storage, latent heat storage offers a number of advantages
Replacement - replacing non-electrical energy at the end user including high energy density and isothermal behavior during
side with clean electricity [1]. charging and discharging processes. Phase change can be
between liquid, solid and gas phases but only liquid-solid and
This work concerns thermal energy particularly thermal solid-solid transitions are practical due to small changes in
energy storage (TES) technologies. The rationale for the work volume. For the solid-liquid phase changes, encapsulation is
lies in the fact that approximately 90% of the global energy often needed in order to contain the liquid, thus avoiding
budget centers around thermal energy generation, leakage, oxidation and corrosion issues. PCM encapsulation
transportation, storage and conversion[2] As a result, balance has been a subject of extensive investigation and lots of the
of the thermal energy supply and demand has been and remains work has been on creating spherical capsules which offer a
a crucially important aspect in the energy supply chain. high surface to volume ratio for heat transfer and are easy to
Traditional thermal energy supply scenario is featured by high form a packed bed [11-14]. Most PCMs have a low thermal
proportion of fossil fuels and centralized electricity generation. conductivity, a considerable amount of studies have been
In such a scenario the primary fuels such as coal, oil and gas performed to enhance thermal conducitvity coefficience by
are easily to be stored and transported for delivering power on using a metal matrix[15-16], carbon fibers or fiber brushes[17],
demand. However, environmental degradation is growing due graphite nanopowder[18] and expanded graphite [19-20].
Acknowledgements:This work was supported by State Grid Corp Sci. &
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These methods resolve the problem to a certain extent but have using a metal module. The resulting composites can be seen in
limited effect on cost and volume change of the materials. Figure I.
Recent work has demonstrated that, for medium to high
temperature, the use of composite materials consisting of The nitrate salt and carbonate slat (calcium carbonate:
molten salt based PCM, a ceramic material and thermal lithium carbonate) are used for medium temperature TES and
enhancement material [21-24], offers unique advantages that high temperature respectively (shown in Figure II). A similar
have the potential to resolve the above problems. In addition, formulate method are carried out for both. The use of the
the method can also resolve the large scale manufacture and ceramic material is to create a microstructural skeleton for
life-span challenges. Ge et al. demonstrated that no significant PCM encapsulation and shape stabilization, whereas the use of
changes to the performance of composite materials after 300 carbon material is to enhance thermal conductivity of the
cycles at 390-520degC. [22]. composites. In both of these composite matierals , the various
eutectic salt are selected to store different grade thermal. The
A relatively small amount of work has been carried out on ceramic skeleton will be choesen on the basis of PCMs. The
the device and system level of TES using PCMs. Li examined composite materials are formulated, which should be tested
the effect of the use of extended fins on the heat transfer with excelletn physical and chemical stability. The high
performance of PCMs [25] . Pandiyarajan designed a combined thermal conductivity can been obtained with thermal
sensible and latent heat storage unit for integration with an IC conduction enhancer addition, such as graphite powder.
engine to recover exhaust heat, and evaluated the heat
recovered, heat lost, charging rate, charging efficiency and A B
percentage [26]. Seddegh presented a shell-tube energy storage
heat exchange system with PCM and studied its thermal
performance [27]. Wang considered a heat storage module
containing different PCMs with a zigzag configuration, and
enhanced charging dynamics were observed in comparison
with the use of one PCM.[28]. Cabeza indicated that the use of
TES technology can mitigate CO2 emission[29]. FIGURE II. COMPOSTIE PCMS MDEIUM TEMPRERATURE
PCM(A) AND HIGH TEMPERATURE(B)
To enhance the thermal energy utilization efficiency for the
TES system, a multi-stage TES is built which is based on the
three various kinds of PCMs. Each single TES and TES system B. Materials properties
are tested in this work. The thermal energy recovery efficiency For the PCMs application, the thermal performance of
is compared then. The study covers material research, system materials is necessary to tested, in particularly the energy
development and application aspects. density, thermal conductivity and so on.
The heat fusion and thermal stability are tested by TG-DSC.
II. MATERIALS RESEARCH The heat capacity test is carried out by TG-DSC as well. A
laser thermal conductivity meter is used to test the thermal
A. Materials formulation conductivity. All the test results are presented in the table I.
In this case, three kind of composite PCM are formulated
whose work temperatures are covering 100 to 600 degC. TABLE I. THERMAL PERFORMACNE OF PCMS
A B
thermal storage plate heat exchanger is designed. The
420 420
TLr,in
400 400 TLr,out
Temperature (K)
Temperature (K)
380 380
TLs,in
the gap between the PCMs modules and the inner wall of each
340 340
320 320
plate, which can reduce the thermal resistant between the 300
2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
300
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
PCMs modules and wall. On the basis of thermal storage units, Time (s) Time (s)
3
<
<
In which, m is the mass rate of the air, Cp is the heat
capacity of air which is changed as a function of temperature.
<
3
IUUROTM
,GT +RKIZXOI
NKGZKX
.OMNZKSVKXGZ[XK:+9
Tout is outlet temperature and Tin is the inlet temperature. Δt is
U[ZRKZ <
< <
3
< the time difference for each measurement.
The storage energy and release energy is presented in the
3
figure V. The result indicates the total stored energy and
]GZKX
:GV
< <
<
release energy is 21.5kWh and 19.7kWh. The energy
3 ]GZKX
2U]ZKSVKXGZ[XK:+9 3KJO[SZKSVKXGZ[XK:+9 efficiency can be over than 91%. The main energy loss is
;YKX regarded as the insulation loss and the pipe. The scale up
(A)
system can come over the heat loss for this kind of system.
25
20
15
Q (kWh)
10
5
store process
release process
0
2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
20 A
50
15
30
Power (kW)
10
20
5
10
An abondaned wind power utilization which is combined
0 0
with TES system is designed as fig VIII. In the thermal charge
0 2000 4000 6000
Time (s)
8000 10000 12000 13:55 14:09 14:24 14:38 14:52 15:07 15:21 15:36 15:50 periods, the abondaned wind power is converted into thermal
energy which can be stored in the TES system. The thermal
Time
80
70 Water
≤⌥pump
60
FIGURE VIII. THE SKETCH OF THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE
50 SYSTEM FOR SURPLUS WIND
Q (kWh)
40
In this case, the heater work power selected is the balance
30
between the thermal demands and the wind generation. On the
20 basis of wind power quickly predication and the thermal
requirments, the proper thermal capacity and heater power for
10 store process
release process TES can be selected to enhance the abondaned wind power
0 utilization.
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000
Time (s)
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