A novel cascade latent heat thermal energy storage system consisting of erythritol and paraffin wax for deep recovery of medium-temperature industrial waste heat

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2023-02-15

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Yang, Sheng
Shao, Xue-Feng
Luo, Jia-Hao
Baghaei Oskouei, Seyedmohsen
Bayer, Özgür
Fan, Li-Wu

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Recovering medium-temperature (e.g., 150–180 °C) industrial waste heat through latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) can effectively attenuate the consumption of fossil fuels. However, the LHTES system containing a single medium-temperature phase change material (PCM), e.g., erythritol, cannot absorb the part of heat below the PCM's melting point (∼118 °C) during the charging process. Meanwhile, a single low-temperature PCM, e.g., paraffin wax, is unable to supply a significant amount of heat at temperatures higher than its melting point upon discharging. Therefore, a cascade LHTES system combining one erythritol unit and two paraffin wax units (melting point of ∼60 °C) was proposed to deeply recover the waste heat during charging and increase the heat supply temperature during discharging. Through prototype testing, the performance of such a cascade system was examined under various working conditions. It was shown that the cascade system could improve the efficiency of the waste heat recovery from 15.8% to 63.4% under the charging condition of 100 L/h and 160 °C, as compared to a single-stage erythritol-based system. The average heat supply temperature of the cascade system was also increased from 37 °C (at a constant flow rate) to 53.6 °C via an active discharging strategy (by tuning the flow rate). This highly efficient cascade LHTES system has great potential for recovery of medium-temperature waste heat towards a decarbonized future of space heating for buildings.

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Cascade latent heat thermal energy storage, Erythritol, Medium temperature, Paraffin wax, Waste heat recovery

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85143682410&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101709

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Energy

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.126359

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article

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S. Yang, X.-F. Shao, J.-H. Luo, S. Baghaei Oskouei, Ö. Bayer, and L.-W. Fan, “A novel cascade latent heat thermal energy storage system consisting of erythritol and paraffin wax for deep recovery of medium-temperature industrial waste heat,” Energy, vol. 265, pp. 0–0, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85143682410&origin=inward.