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High energy-density and power-density cold storage enabled by sorption thermal battery based on liquid-gas phase change process

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  • Chao, Jingwei
  • Xu, Jiaxing
  • Xiang, Shizhao
  • Bai, Zhaoyuan
  • Yan, Taisen
  • Wang, Pengfei
  • Wang, Ruzhu
  • Li, Tingxian

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Cold storage is essential for the preservation of food/medical goods, energy-saving of air conditioning, and emergency cooling. However, conventional cold storage in the form of sensible heat or solid-liquid latent heat suffers from the low energy density and large cold loss during long-term storage. To address the problem, a scalable sorption thermal battery (STB) with storage capacity of 30 kWh is designed and fabricated for realizing high energy-density and power-density cold storage by proposing sorption-induced liquid-gas phase change strategy. The STB utilizes the bonding energy of sorption working pair of zeolite 13X-water to achieve cold storage during charging phase, and utilizes the liquid-gas evaporation heat of water to realize cold production during discharging phase. The cold-storage performance of the STB prototype during charging/discharging processes is experimentally investigated at different operating conditions. By optimizing the assembled structure of solid-gas reactor and enhancing the heat transfer performance of liquid-gas evaporator, the STB exhibits high cold energy density up to 114.92 Wh/kg and 26.76 kWh/m3, and high power density of 455.62 W/kg and 106.10 kW/m3, over the conventional cold storage technologies. Correspondingly, the STB demonstrates a good performance in thermal management of data centers with cooling power as high as 150 kW. Moreover, the STB has the distinct advantage of near-zero cold energy loss in long-term cold storage. The proposed scalable sorption thermal battery based on sorption-induced liquid-gas evaporation heat of liquid offers a promising route to realize high energy density cold storage.

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  • Chao, Jingwei & Xu, Jiaxing & Xiang, Shizhao & Bai, Zhaoyuan & Yan, Taisen & Wang, Pengfei & Wang, Ruzhu & Li, Tingxian, 2023. "High energy-density and power-density cold storage enabled by sorption thermal battery based on liquid-gas phase change process," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 334(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:334:y:2023:i:c:s030626192300020x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120656
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