Thermal management of metal hydride hydrogen storage using phase change materials for standalone solar hydrogen systems: An energy/exergy investigation |
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Affiliation: | 1. Mechanical and Automotive Discipline, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia;2. Faculty of Heat and Refrigeration Engineering, The University of Danang – University of Science and Technology, Danang, Viet Nam |
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Abstract: | This paper reports on an energy/exergy analysis of a standalone solar-hydrogen system with a metal hydride (MH) system thermally managed using a phase change material (PCM). This is a self-contained thermal management arrangement that stores the heat released from the MH unit, when it is being charged and transfers it back to the MH while discharging hydrogen. The first and second laws of thermodynamics were used to develop a mathematical model in MATLAB to simulate this system and quality its performance from the energy and exergy viewpoints. The model was then applied on a passive standalone house, with ~3.8 MWh/year electricity demand, located in southeast Australia. The exergy efficiencies of the solar PV, electrolyser, fuel cell and the whole solar hydrogen system were found to be 6.5%, 88%, 50.6%, and 3.74%, respectively. The paper also provides the detailed entropy generation and exergy analysis on the MH hydrogen storage unit together with its PCM-based thermal management arrangement. The results show that the annual entropy generation, exergy destruction and exergy efficiency of the MH hydrogen storage unit were 173 Wh/K, 51.5 kWh, and 98.8%, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Solar-hydrogen Metal hydride Thermal management Phase change materials Exergy and entropy generation analyses |
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