Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 354–364
Meseret Tesfay1 and Meyyappan Venkatesan2
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ethiopian Institute of Technology, [EIT – M] Mekelle University, Ethiopia
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ethiopian Institute of Technology, [EIT – M] Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Original language: English
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Solar thermal power generation is a modern technology, which has already shown feasible results in the production of electricity. Thermal energy storage (TES) is a crucial element in solar energy applications, which includes the increase of building thermal capacity, solar water heating systems for domestic use, and Concentrated Solar Thermal power plants for electricity generation. Economic, efficient and reliable thermal energy storage systems are a key need of solar thermal power plants, in order to smooth out the insolation changes during intermittent cloudy weather condition or during night period, to allow the operation. To address this goal, based on the parabolic trough power plants, sensible heat storage system with operation temperature between 300
Author Keywords: Sensible thermal Energy storage, Single tank, Thermocline, Modeling, Minimum volume.
Meseret Tesfay1 and Meyyappan Venkatesan2
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ethiopian Institute of Technology, [EIT – M] Mekelle University, Ethiopia
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ethiopian Institute of Technology, [EIT – M] Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Solar thermal power generation is a modern technology, which has already shown feasible results in the production of electricity. Thermal energy storage (TES) is a crucial element in solar energy applications, which includes the increase of building thermal capacity, solar water heating systems for domestic use, and Concentrated Solar Thermal power plants for electricity generation. Economic, efficient and reliable thermal energy storage systems are a key need of solar thermal power plants, in order to smooth out the insolation changes during intermittent cloudy weather condition or during night period, to allow the operation. To address this goal, based on the parabolic trough power plants, sensible heat storage system with operation temperature between 300
Author Keywords: Sensible thermal Energy storage, Single tank, Thermocline, Modeling, Minimum volume.
How to Cite this Article
Meseret Tesfay and Meyyappan Venkatesan, “Simulation of thermocline thermal energy storage system using C,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 354–364, June 2013.
