Particle-based high-temperature thermochemical energy storage reactors

J Zhao, D Korba, A Mishra, J Klausner… - Progress in Energy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar and other renewable energy driven gas-solid thermochemical energy storage (TCES)
technology is a promising solution for the next generation energy storage systems due to its …

Long-term replenishment strategy of SiC-doped Mn-Fe particles for high-temperature thermochemical energy storage

D Gan, H Sheng, PW Zhu, H Xu, G Xiao - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal chemical energy storage (TCES) is a promising technology for large-scale energy
storage, but long-term use of TCES materials can lead to attrition and reaction performance …

Experimental and numerical analyses of gravity-driven granular flows between vertical parallel plates for solar thermal energy storage and transport

SY Jeong, MV Bagepalli, JD Brooks, D Ranjan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gravity-driven granular flows between vertical parallel plates were considered at elevated
temperatures to examine flow behavior and inform solar thermal energy storage and …

Fuzzy technique application in selecting photovoltaic energy and solar thermal energy production in belt and road countries

X Qian, Y Bai, W Huang, J Dai, X Li, Y Wang - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
The fuzzy analytical hierarchy process and technique for order preference by similarity to an
ideal solution are combined to select the best production location for photovoltaic energy …

Micromechanical origin of heat transfer to granular flow

X Zhang, S Adapa, T Feng, J Zeng, KM Chung, C Ho… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Heat transfer across a granular flow is comprised of two resistances in series: near the wall
and within the bulk particle bed, neither of which is well understood due to the lack of …

Numerical modelling of radiative heat transfer in a polydispersion of ceramic particles under direct high-flux solar irradiation

J Chen, A Kumar, J Coventry, JS Kim… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effects of polydispersity on radiative and interfacial convective heat transfer are
investigated in particle–gas two-phase media for solar particle receiver applications. Non …

Radiative view factor correlations in particulate media from ray tracing simulations and data-driven modeling

Z Chen, RB Chandran - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal radiation has been extensively modeled in static particulate media with effective
radiative properties or with statistical ray tracing techniques. However, these techniques are …

Experimental characterization of extreme temperature granular flows for solar thermal energy transport and storage

MV Bagepalli, SY Jeong, JD Brooks, ZM Zhang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-temperature, dense granular flows along an inclined plane were considered for solar
thermal energy transport and storage with sintered bauxite particles. A series of experiments …

A numerical study of the spectral radiative properties of packed bed with mixed bauxite and silica spheres

C Chen, D Ranjan, PG Loutzenhiser… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bauxite and silica particles have gained increasing attention for applications in the field of
concentrated solar power. In this work, a Monte Carlo ray-tracing simulation is performed to …

Modeling heat and mass transfer in granular flows between vertical parallel plates

SY Jeong, MV Bagepalli, JD Brooks, D Ranjan… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gravity-driven granular flows between vertical parallel plates at elevated temperatures are
integral in the development of the next generation of particle-based heat exchangers for …