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Numerical analyses of concrete thermal energy storage systems: effect of the modules’ arrangement
Full text linkThis paper is focused on modularized concrete sensible thermal energy storage systems with thermal oil as heat transfer fluid; the thermal storage systems have been conceived to be integrated into a concentrated solar power plant. This work is mainly focused on the effect of the modules’ arrangement on the overall performance of the thermal energy storage system. Series and parallel arrangements are investigated, to determine the most performant solutions in terms of exchanged thermal energy as a function of the main operating conditions: oil mass flow rate and pressure drop, both in heating and cooling phase. Two different boundary conditions are considered: adiabatic and diabatic external walls. The simulations are carried out using an extended version of a model proposed by the present authors for a single concrete block, that was validated with experimental data. The exchanged thermal energy, the oil mass flow rate, the pressure drops, and the duration of the process are changed to evaluate the storages under different operating conditions. The best thermal energy storage configuration is determined by a thermal energy assessment: it coincides with the first one that reaches the asymptotic values with the minimum number of elements. Furthermore, in the diabatic case, the loss heat flux toward the environment has a significant role and highlights the differences between charging and discharging phases, its presence contributed to a more aware choice of the most suitable and performant modularized system
Numerical simulation through experimental validation of latent and sensible concrete thermal energy storage system
No full textA new type of concrete with PCM (Phase Change Material) thermal energy storage system is presented. The system, developed for industrial applications, is supposed to operate with a temperature up to 400 °C and the PCM added mixture presents enhanced thermal performances. A binary mixture of salts was used as PCMs, composed of 40% of KNO3 and 60% of NaNO3, and they were absorbed by diatomite, a porous fossil flour. A stainless-steel pipe is inserted in the centre of a concrete cylinder, the whole system is insulated. The experimental tests studied two concrete mixtures, with 5% PCM in weight and without it. The charging stage is carried out via Joule's effect and the module is then cooled with compressed air through the pipe. The two mixtures were tested under the same operating conditions. The module was numerically simulated and the results were compared with previous experimental tests to calibrate the model. Further numerical simulations were conducted to test other PCM percentages, under the same conditions as the experimental tests and with thermal oil as heat transfer fluid, to evaluate a possible working scenario. The results showed that the PCM integration into the storage system led to an impressive improvement in thermal performance. The amount of stored and released thermal energy increased with the PCM integration, coming to double its original value with the highest PCM percentage integration simulated, which corresponds to 40%
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No full textCostruzione del concetto di equazione: dalla messa in formula alla risoluzione di equazioni e sistemi lineari
No full textNatural and forced convection in high temperature PCM embedded in a 3D periodic structure realized via additive manufacturing
No full textThe interest in Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is continuously growing, since they have been identified as a suitable way of storing large quantities of thermal energy. There are many PCMs available on the market, nevertheless almost all present a relatively low thermal conductivity, which limits the efficiency and the convenience of their use inside Latent Thermal Energy Storages (LTES). This work proposes a novel method to overcome the low thermal conductivity drawback, the additive manufacturing was used to realize innovative 3D metallic periodic structures to be filled with a suitable PCM. The samples were experimentally tested by analyzing the temperature field in a paraffin wax having a melting temperature of around 70 °C and by collecting several videos and images during the charging (i.e. heating and melting) process, obtained by electrical heating (power from 30 W to 60 W were applied) and the discharging (i.e. solidification and cooling) one where the heat was rejected by natural or by forced convection with ambient air. The coupling of PCMs and aluminum structures was demonstrated to enhance both the charging and the discharging processes
3D numerical simulation of a novel ventilated roof: thermal performance analysis and fluid flow behavior
No full textThis paper presents a numerical simulation of a ventilated roof based on a novel plastic support especially designed to reduce the solar heat gains by improving the airflow distribution as compared to a traditional one. In order to evaluate the benefits of the new configuration, a 3 D numerical model was developed allowing for a deep understanding of the airflow distribution inside the ventilated roof channels. The simulations were performed by varying the solar irradiance from 600 to 1000 W m−2 assuming buoyancy-driven airflow. The investigation was conducted by comparing the new proposed ventilated roof assembly to the traditional layouts. In particular, two roof types were considered as benchmarks: an insulated roof and a non-insulated one. When compared to the traditional ones, the results revealed that the innovative ventilated roof led to a great reduction (up to 70%) of the total amount of solar heat gains for all the simulated scenarios
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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