Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis of Heat Storage Filled with the Ceramic Bricks Dedicated to the Solar Air Heating System
Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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Materials 2017, 10(8), 940; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10080940
Received: 28 June 2017
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Revised: 3 August 2017
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Accepted: 10 August 2017
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Published: 12 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Section Energy Materials)
This article presents the results of a study into a packed bed filled with ceramic bricks. The designed storage installation is supposed to become part of a heating system installed in a single-family house and eventually to be integrated with a concentrated solar collector adapted to climate conditions in Poland. The system’s working medium is air. The investigated temperature ranges and air volume flow rates in the ceramic bed were dictated by the planned integration with a solar air heater. Designing a packed bed of sufficient parameters first required a mathematical model to be constructed and heat exchange to be analyzed, since heat accumulation is a complex process influenced by a number of material properties. The cases discussed in the literature are based on differing assumptions and different formulas are used in calculations. This article offers a comparison of various mathematical models and of system operating parameters obtained from these models. The primary focus is on the Nusselt number. Furthermore, in the article, the thermo-hydraulic efficiency of the investigated packed bed is presented. This part is based on a relationship used in solar air collectors with internal storage.
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Nemś, M.; Nemś, A.; Kasperski, J.; Pomorski, M. Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis of Heat Storage Filled with the Ceramic Bricks Dedicated to the Solar Air Heating System. Materials 2017, 10, 940. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10080940
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Nemś M, Nemś A, Kasperski J, Pomorski M. Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis of Heat Storage Filled with the Ceramic Bricks Dedicated to the Solar Air Heating System. Materials. 2017; 10(8):940. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10080940
Chicago/Turabian StyleNemś, Magdalena, Artur Nemś, Jacek Kasperski, and Michał Pomorski. 2017. "Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis of Heat Storage Filled with the Ceramic Bricks Dedicated to the Solar Air Heating System" Materials 10, no. 8: 940. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10080940
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