Finite Volume Analysis of Thermal Energy Storage in a Thermochemical Material

Abstract This paper focus on finite volume analysis of thermal energy storage in a thermochemical material (TCM). The storage of energy becomes important as the production of renewable energy increases. The performance of thermal energy storage material is depends on many factors like energy storage density, available energy for storage, nature of the TCM etc. A generalised computer code is developed in FORTRAN and the process of thermal energy storage and the influence of various factors like input heat flux, porosity, relative humidity etc. are analysed. The effect of these factors in the thermochemical energy storage process are discussed and an optimum condition to maximise the performance has been obtained using Thaguchi method. Keywords: Energy storage, Thermochemical material, Thermochemical reaction, Thermal energy storage