Papers Published

  1. Bejan, A., TWO THERMODYNAMIC OPTIMA IN THE DESIGN OF SENSIBLE HEAT UNITS FOR ENERGY STORAGE., Journal of Heat Transfer, Transactions ASME, vol. 100 no. 4 (1978), pp. 708 - 712 .
    (last updated on 2007/04/08)

    Abstract:
    The paper presents a treatment of sensible heat energy storage units as systems intended to store useful work. An analysis of the thermodynamic irreversibilities associated with storing energy from a hot gas source as sensible heat in huge liquid baths points out two important trade-offs: There exists an optimum, well-defined quantity of hot gas to be used in order to maximize the useful work stored in the liquid bath. Using more than this optimum quantity in the hope of maximizing the amount of thermal energy stored as sensible heat leads to severe thermodynamics losses. There exists an optimum relationship among the gas-liquid heat exchanger design parameters which minimizes the system irreversibility while maximizing its capability of storing useful work. This relationship provides a procedure for estimating the heat exchanger optimum number of transfer units.

    Keywords:
    HEATING - Heat Storage;THERMODYNAMICS;HEAT EXCHANGERS - Design;