دورية أكاديمية
Thermal energy storage in combined cycle power plants: comparing finite volume to finite element methods
| العنوان: | Thermal energy storage in combined cycle power plants: comparing finite volume to finite element methods |
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| المؤلفون: | Gkoutzamanis Vasilis G., Chiu Justin N. W., Martin Guillaume, Kalfas Anestis I. |
| المصدر: | E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 113, p 01001 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | EDP Sciences, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Environmental sciences |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| الوصف: | The research in thermal energy storage (TES) systems has a long track record. However, there are several technical challenges that need to be overcome, to become omnipresent and reach their full potential. These include performance, physical size, weight and dynamic response. In many cases, it is also necessary to be able to achieve the foregoing at greater and greater scale, in terms of power and energy. One of the applications in which these challenges prevail is in the integration of a thermal energy storage with the gas turbine (GT) compressor inlet conditioning system in a combined cycle power plant. The system is intended to provide either GT cooling or heating, based on the operational strategy of the plant. As a contribution to tackle the preceding, this article describes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations, employing different Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods, to study the transient effects of inlet temperature and flow rate variation on the performance of an encapsulated TES with phase change materials (PCM). A sensitivity analysis is performed where the heat transfer fluid (HTF) temperature varies from -7°C to 20°C depending on the operating mode of the TES (charging or discharging). The flow rate ranges from 50% to 200% of the nominal inflow rate. Results show that all examined cases lead to instant thermal power above 100kWth. Moreover, increasing the flow rate leads to faster solidification and melting. The increment in each process depends on the driving temperature difference between the encapsulated PCM and the HTF inlet temperature. Lastly, the effect of the inlet temperature has a larger effect as compared to the mass flow rate on the efficiency of the heat transfer of the system. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English French |
| تدمد: | 2267-1242 |
| العلاقة: | https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2019/39/e3sconf_supehr18_01001.pdfTest; https://doaj.org/toc/2267-1242Test |
| DOI: | 10.1051/e3sconf/201911301001 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/ce46da3fc3474703956d0594de5af45eTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.46da3fc3474703956d0594de5af45e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 22671242 |
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| DOI: | 10.1051/e3sconf/201911301001 |