Performance in the Discharge Process of a Novel Zeolite-Water Adsorption Thermal Energy Storage System

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  • 1. Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3. National Energy Large Scale Physical Energy Storage Technologies R&D Center (Bijie), Bijie 551712, China

Online published: 2023-11-27

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This study is financially supported by National Key R&D Plan (Grant No. 2017YFB0903605), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant No. 51925604), International Partnership Program, Bureau of International Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 182211KYSB20170029), Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA21070302) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Distributed Combined Cooling Heating and Power System.

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

In order to effectively recover low and medium grade heat energy, a novel combined cooling and heating storage system based on zeolite-water is proposed in this paper. The system coupled the zeolite-water adsorption process with the water evaporation refrigeration process during discharging process to realize generating cold energy and heat energy simultaneously. A more accurate kinetic model of zeolite and water adsorption is developed, and the thermodynamic performance of discharging process of the system is numerically analyzed. The results show the system has the higher energy conversion coefficient of 1.49 and the higher energy density of 1216.6 kJ/kg-zeolite. The change laws of system performances, such as energy generated, energy conversion coefficient and energy density, with key parameters during discharging process are revealed. The study provides a way for efficient utilization of low and medium grade heat energy.  

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YUE Xiuyan, XU Yujie, ZHOU Xuezhi, ZHANG Xinjing, LINGHU Youqiang, WANG Xiang, CHEN Haisheng . Performance in the Discharge Process of a Novel Zeolite-Water Adsorption Thermal Energy Storage System[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(4) : 1626 -1634 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1727-9

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