Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2021, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (4): 1374-1379.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2021.0110

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Optimal design of packed bed cold storage heat exchangers with solid NaClparticles in supercritical compressed air energy storage system

Yuting WU(), Gege SONG, Cancan ZHANG(), Zhenfeng KOU, Yuanwei LU   

  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation, Beijing Key Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
  • Received:2021-03-16 Revised:2021-03-24 Online:2021-07-05 Published:2021-06-25
  • Contact: Cancan ZHANG E-mail:wuyuting@bjut.edu.cn;zcc@bjut.edu.cn

Abstract:

The cold storage heat exchanger is an important part of a supercritical compressed air energy storage system. In order to explore the influence of design parameters on the processing cost and performance of the cold storage device, a supercritical packed bed cold storage heat exchanger is designed with solid sodium chloride as the cold storage material. According to the required parameters of the system and the constraint equation of the size of the pressure vessel, the 10 MW cold storage heat exchanger is optimized in order to minimize the tank mass and processing costs, minimize the cooling loss, and increase the cold storage efficiency. It is found that with increasing height of the heat exchanger, the tank mass and cost rise gradually. Analyzing the efficiency of the cold storage device under different powers ranging from 0.5MW to 10 MW, we determined that the cold storage efficiency increases gradually from 94.65% to 96.08% with increasing power when the aspect ratio is constant; the cold loss also increases with the power. Finally, in fourteen sets of optimized data, the cold loss of the heat exchanger is relatively low under optimal parameters, with the cold storage efficiency being 96.08%. The processing cost also falls within the acceptable range.

Key words: supercritical compressed-air energy storage(SC-CAES), heat exchanger with cold storage, high pressure packed bed, optimal design

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