Effect of Phase Change Material Storage on the Dynamic Performance of a Direct Vapor Generation Solar Organic Rankine Cycle System

Abstract

Solar energy is a potential source for a thermal power generation system. A direct vapor generation solar organic Rankine cycle system using phase change material storage was analyzed in the present study. The overall system consisted of an arrangement of evacuated flat plate collectors, a phase-change-material-based thermal storage tank, a turbine, a water-cooled condenser, and an organic fluid pump. The MATLAB programming environment was used to develop the thermodynamic model of the whole system. The thermal storage tank was modeled using the finite difference method and the results were validated against experimental work carried out in the past. The hourly weather data of Karachi, Pakistan, was used to carry out the dynamic simulation of the system on a weekly, monthly, and annual basis. The impact of phase change material storage on the enhancement of the overall system performance during the charging and discharging modes was also evaluated. The annual organic Rankine cycle efficiency, system efficiency, and net power output were observed to be 12.16%, 9.38%, and 26.8 kW, respectively. The spring and autumn seasons showed better performance of the phase change material storage system compared to the summer and winter seasons. The rise in working fluid temperature, the fall in phase change material temperature, and the amount of heat stored by the thermal storage were found to be at a maximum in September, while their values became a minimum in February.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13225904
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design
Additional Information: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Uncontrolled Keywords: solar organic Rankine cycle,direct vapor generation,phase change material,efficiency,net power,energy stored
Publication ISSN: 1996-1073
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2024 07:24
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2020 12:01
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Related URLs: https://www.mdp ... 1073/13/22/5904 (Publisher URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2020-11-12
Accepted Date: 2020-11-09
Authors: Alvi, Jahan Zeb
Feng, Yongqiang
Wang, Qian
Imran, Muhammad (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-3057-1301)
Khan, Lehar Asip
Pei, Gang

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