Numerical Investigation of Thermal Storage System in a Single-Tank for CSP Plants

Aumeur El Amrani, Abella Bouaaddi

2018

Abstract

To avoid the intermittency behavior in solar energy system due to unforeseen weather conditions and to improve the energy availability, thermal energy storage (TES) system remains inevitable. Thus, a single tank packed bed thermocline based TES system can provide an effective solution. This paper reports a study on the thermal energy storage in a thermocline tank having a solid filler material. A comprehensive one-dimensional non-thermal equilibrium model is considered and is solved using method of characteristics for the energy storage investigation in a single tank packed bed thermocline storage system. In this present study, the governing equations are approached from a new numerical method perspective. The governing equations are reduced to dimensionless forms, which allow a universal application of the solution. The dimensionless equations, which are as a system of hyperbolic type, are solved numerically by the method of characteristics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

El Amrani A. and Bouaaddi A. (2018). Numerical Investigation of Thermal Storage System in a Single-Tank for CSP Plants.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE, ISBN 978-989-758-431-2, pages 291-296. DOI: 10.5220/0009775502910296

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccsre18,
author={Aumeur El Amrani and Abella Bouaaddi},
title={Numerical Investigation of Thermal Storage System in a Single-Tank for CSP Plants},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,},
year={2018},
pages={291-296},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009775502910296},
isbn={978-989-758-431-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,
TI - Numerical Investigation of Thermal Storage System in a Single-Tank for CSP Plants
SN - 978-989-758-431-2
AU - El Amrani A.
AU - Bouaaddi A.
PY - 2018
SP - 291
EP - 296
DO - 10.5220/0009775502910296