Browsing by Author "Galione Klot, Pedro Andrés"
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A new thermocline-PCM thermal storage concept for CSP plants. Numerical analysis and perspectives
(2013)
Conference report
Open AccessThermocline storage concept has been considered for more than a decade as a possible solution to reduce the huge cost of the storage system in CSP plants. However, one of the drawbacks of this concept is the decrease in ... -
Fixed-grid numerical modeling of melting and solidification using variable thermo-physical properties - Application to the melting of n-Octadecane inside a spherical capsule
(2015-07-01)
Article
Open AccessA fixed-grid enthalpy model for unstructured meshes and explicit time integration schemes (Galione et al., 2014) is here extended for taking into account the change in density and other thermo-physical properties with the ... -
Multi-layered solid-PCM thermocline thermal storage concept for CSP plants. Numerical analysis and perspectives
(2015-03-15)
Article
Open AccessThermocline storage concept has been considered for more than a decade as a possible solution to reduce the huge cost of the storage system in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. However, one of the drawbacks of this ... -
Multi-layered solid-PCM thermocline thermal storage for CSP. Numerical evaluation of its application in a 50 MWe plant
(2015-09-01)
Article
Open AccessThermocline storage concept is considered as a possible solution to reduce the cost of thermal storage in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. Recently, a multi-layered solid-PCM (MLSPCM) concept—consisting of a ... -
Numerical evaluation of multi-layered solid-PCM thermocline-like tanks as thermal energy storage systems for CSP applications
(2015-05)
Article
Open AccessThe two-tank system is the technology used for thermal energy storage (TES) in current concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. Thermocline storage concept has been considered for more than a decade as a possible solution ... -
Numerical modeling and experimental validation of Thermal Energy Storage tanks for propulsion systems under cryogenic conditions
(2014)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyLow Thrust Cryogenic Propulsion (LTCP) systems [1] need a thermal energy storage acting as a heat accumulator, where a cryogenic flow of (LOx) propellant is gasified inside, under a fast transient evaporation process. The ... -
Numerical modelling of the phase change material heat accumulator under fast transient gasification conditions in a low thrust cryogenic propulsion (LTCP) system
(2012)
Research report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe study of one of the components, the heat accumulator, of Low Thrust Cryogenic Propulsion systems (LTCP), is of scientific interest in the framework of ISP-1 project [1]. This device stores thermal energy from the fuel ... -
Numerical simulations of energy storage with encapsulated phase change materials. Special emphasis on solid-liquid phase change CFD modelling
(2013)
Conference lecture
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Numerical simulations of thermal storage systems : emphasis on latent energy storage using phase change materials (PCM)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-12-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe present thesis aims at studying the use of phase change materials (PCM) in thermal energy storage (TES) applications and to develop and implement numerical tools for their evaluation. Numerical analysis is nowadays an ... -
Unstructured 3D numerical modeling of the melting of a PCM contained in a spherical capsule
(International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 2014)
Conference report
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Unstructured modelling of solid-liquid phase change using parallel computing. Application to the analysis of thermal energy storage systems with encapsulated phase change materials
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Universitat de Barcelona, 2011-10)
Master thesis
Open AccessThe main goal of this work is to numerically simulate convection phenomena in solid-liquid phase change processes and its application in the analysis of a thermal energy storage system with phase change materials. First ...
