Publication detail
An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems
CHARVÁT, P. KLIMEŠ, L. MAUDER, T.
Original Title
An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
Phase change materials (PCMs) are materials with a high latent heat of melting. The PCMs can be used in various thermal storage applications and one of them is thermal storage in solar air systems. Air-based solar thermal systems are not as common as the water-based solar systems but they can be rather effectively employed for space heating and other purposes. A general problem with the solar thermal systems is the need for thermal storage in order to balance supply and demand of heat over a certain period of time. A numerical and experimental investigation of the performance of an air-PCM heat storage unit is described in this paper. The unit comprises of aluminum containers filled with paraffin-based PCM.
Keywords
phase change material, heat exchanger, solar systems
Authors
CHARVÁT, P.; KLIMEŠ, L.; MAUDER, T.
RIV year
2012
Released
26. 6. 2012
Publisher
Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Location
Brno
ISBN
978-80-214-4529-1
Book
Sborník příspěvků 31. mezinárodní konference Setkání kateder mechaniky tekutin a termomechaniky
Edition number
1
Pages from
75
Pages to
78
Pages count
4
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT92819,
author="Pavel {Charvát} and Lubomír {Klimeš} and Tomáš {Mauder}",
title="An air-PCM heat exchanger for thermal storage in air-based solar thermal systems",
booktitle="Sborník příspěvků 31. mezinárodní konference Setkání kateder mechaniky tekutin a termomechaniky",
year="2012",
number="1",
pages="75--78",
publisher="Vysoké učení technické v Brně",
address="Brno",
isbn="978-80-214-4529-1"
}