SIMULASI COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS PELELEHAN DAN PEMBEKUAN PADA TANGKI THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE DENGAN KAPSUL BERISI CAMPURAN PARAFFIN WAX DAN SERBUK TEMBAGA FRAKSI MASSA 10 % DENGAN VARIASI FLUKS KALOR PADA CHARGING DAN VARIASI DEBIT AIR PADA DISCHARGING SECARA BERTAHAP
Abstract
The right method for overcoming the lack of conventional SWH is to use the
Latent Heat Storage (LHS) method as Thermal Energy Storage (TES). Phase
Change Material (PCM) has a high energy density but low thermal conductivity.
Provision of copper powder on PCM can increase its thermal conductivity. In this
study the PCM used was a mixture of paraffin wax with copper 10% mass fraction.
However, the experimental TES research is expensive, therefore a Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation study is needed. One of the objectives of this
research is to determine the time of the melting and freezing of the paraffin wax
mixture with copper 10% fraction mass.
The geometry configuration consists of a tank as a Heat Transfer Fluid
(HTF) and 32 copper pipes containing a PCM-Cu. This simulation is carried out
using ANSYS Fluent 18.0 which consists of a charging and discharging
discontinue. In the charging process has a water discharge of 0.9 LPM and a
variation of heat flux 900 W and 1100 W. While the discharging discontinue with
LPM and 2.5 LPM. Simulation objects include temperature evolution and melting
and solidification of the PCM-Cu.
The simulation results show that the greater the value of the heat flux, the
faster the melting time and the greater the flowrate, the faster the solidification
time. This is evidenced by the melting time in the 900 W charging process that is
4.2 hours and 1100 W which is 2.94 hours. While the time of solidification in the
process of discharging discontinue in a variation of 1.5 LPM is 0.76 hours and
2.5 LPM is 0.5875 hours.