Performance study of a partitioned thermally stratified storage tank in a solar powered absorption air conditioning system

被引:19
作者
Li, ZF [1 ]
Sumathy, K [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Mech Engn, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
stratification; partitioned storage tank; solar energy; absorption air conditioning;
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O414.1 [热力学];
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摘要
Accurate modeling of solar heating or cooling with storage generally requires an accounting of the stratification within such storage tank, since overall system performance is significantly affected by the storage temperature distribution. In this study, a simple one-dimensional multi-node approach, taking into account of the axial heat conduction between nodes, has been used to theoretically analyze temperature stratification in the thermal storage tank. The results indicate that, for less collector area, the heat removal factor plays a major role in increasing the system performance, than the thermal stratification. Also, an optimum ratio of tank volume over collector area exists for a solar powered absorption air conditioning system. This paper also reviews the state of the art on different kinds of variable inlet design, and a simple new inlet design (partitioning the tank) has been introduced to effect better thermal stratification in storage tank. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1207 / 1216
页数:10
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