Behaviour of Thermodynamic Models with Phase Change Materials under Periodic Conditions英文文献资料.docVIP

Energy and Power Engineering, 2011, 3, 150-157 doi:10.4236/epe.2011.32019 Published Online May 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/epe) Behaviour of Thermodynamic Models with Phase Change Materials under Periodic Conditions Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Salvatore Giurdanella, Matteo Patrucco Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino, Italy E-mail: amelia.sparavigna@polito.it Received February 18, 2011; revised April 1, 2011; accepted April 7, 2011 Abstract We study the thermal behaviour of some models in a steady periodic regime. The aim is to simulate the be- haviour of small environments at the outermost part of our planet, subjected to the periodic solar radiation. Our approach is based on a method using lumped elements or volumes that simplifies the description of spa- tially distributed physical systems, through a topology consisting of discrete entities. Our models include some parts acting as energy storage systems, made with Phase Change Materials (PCMs). The storage is based on latent heats: the energy is stored during the melting and recovered during the solidification of the PCM substance. The simulation with lumped elements shows some interesting behaviours of temperatures. Keywords: Thermodynamics, Heat Exchange, Lumped Volume Models 1. Introduction These models are also interesting for simulating the thermal behaviour of a building with systems for energy storage. Let us note that a storage system is a fundamen- tal counterpart of all those systems based on renewable energies working under periodic conditions. The study of the thermal behaviour of macroscopic sys- tems in a steady periodic regime is quite important be- cause of its usefulness in investigating the effects pro- duced by solar radiation on the structures located on the outermost part of our planet. The aim of these studies is the simulation of temperature behaviours and heat ex- changes in local environ