Large-scale implementation of solar energy systems in the residential sector relies on innovative thermal energy storage units. This paper contributes to today’s discussion by proposing a storage tank with phase-change material, the size of which has been selected to be coupled with solar-assisted heat pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1305,1364],"targets":[],"pubblicazioni_tipologie":[778],"class_list":["post-194613","pubblicazioni","type-pubblicazioni","status-publish","hentry","tag-energy-efficiency-en","tag-residential-sector","pubblicazioni_tipologie-paper-en"],"acf":{"dont_show_hompage":true,"projects":{"ID":191045,"post_author":"464","post_date":"2024-07-10 16:22:44","post_date_gmt":"2024-07-10 14:22:44","post_content":"","post_title":"Technologies for efficient penetration of the electric carrier into end uses","post_excerpt":"The project aims to promote efficient solutions that can reduce energy consumption and foster the development of technologies for converting electricity into other forms of energy or converting thermal energy, including solar or environmental energy, into electrical, thermal and cooling energy.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"technologies-for-efficient-penetration-of-the-electric-carrier-into-end-uses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-08-09 15:54:16","post_modified_gmt":"2024-08-09 13:54:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.rse-web.it\/progetti\/technologies-for-efficient-penetration-of-the-electric-carrier-into-end-uses\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"progetti","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"order_posts":"","dont_show_search":false,"related_posts":false,"show_on_slider":false,"single_post_data":{"titolo_spot":"","post_content":"
The storage unit consists of a fin and tube heat exchanger placed inside a tank: water is circulated on one side of the heat exchanger, and commercial kerosene RT26 is used on the other side. The storage system is operated by considering two configurations of the heat exchanger (parallel and series) and implementing a wide range of boundary conditions to test the storage unit under real operating conditions. For this purpose, a new test bed was designed and constructed with electric heaters (to provide the heating load) and a heat pump (to provide the cooling load). The results were commented on in global and local terms; it was found that the proposed storage, compared with a volume equivalent water storage, is able to store 65% more heat energy. In addition, the dataset obtained in this research is interesting for validating the numerical codes of storage units for phase-change materials.<\/p>\n","scarica_file":false,"link_estreno":[{"link_text":"Download Memory","link":"https:\/\/re.public.polimi.it\/retrieve\/handle\/11311\/1188510\/665714\/ECCE_BesagniCroci.pdf"}],"button":{"text":"","link":""},"referente_group":false,"data_emissione":"2019-09-19","autori":"G. Besagni, L. Croci (RSE S.p.A.)","destinazione":"ECCE 12 -12th European Congress on Chemical Engineering, Florence, September 15-19, 2019","rif_rse":"19002219"},"satellite_post_url":""},"yoast_head":"\n