Studies on Enhancement of Charging/Discharging Characteristics of an Encapsulated Latent Heat Thermal Storage Unit

Introduction

The present work focuses on investigating the performance of a multiple PCM LHTS unit employing commercial RT type PCMs imported from Rubitherm, Germany. The major objectives are:

• To investigate numerically the influence of the different operating/thermophysical parameters on the performance of a single PCM LHTS unit .

• To investigate experimentally the performance of both single and multiple PCM LHTS units with a vertical storage unit designed and fabricated for the purpose.

Multiple PCM experimental setup	Temperature distribution within the multiple PCM unit during charging

Achievements

1. A latent heat thermal storage unit employing multiple PCMs was designed and fabricated.

2. The real time charging and discharging characteristics of commercial RT PCMs like RT31, RT35 and RT42 were obtained.

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