TY - JOUR KW - HVAC KW - Modelica KW - Thermal energy storage KW - Phase change material KW - Latent heat transfer AU - Dre Helmns AU - David Blum AU - Spencer M Dutton AU - Van P Carey AB -

An abundance of research has been performed to understand the physics of latent thermal energy storage with phase change material. Some analytical and numerical findings have been validated by experiments, but there are few free and open-source models available to the general public for use in systems simulation and analysis. The Modelica programming language is a good avenue to make such models available, because it is object-oriented, equation-based, declarative, and acausal. These characteristics have enabling the creation of component model libraries that can be used to build larger system simulations for design analysis. The authors have previously developed a numerical framework to model phase change thermal storage and have validated model predictions with experiments. The objectives of this paper are to describe the transfer of the numerical framework to an implementation in a Modelica component model and to validate the Modelica model with data from the experiment and the original numerical framework.

BT - Energies DA - 01/2021 DO - 10.3390/en14010194 IS - 1 LA - eng N2 -

An abundance of research has been performed to understand the physics of latent thermal energy storage with phase change material. Some analytical and numerical findings have been validated by experiments, but there are few free and open-source models available to the general public for use in systems simulation and analysis. The Modelica programming language is a good avenue to make such models available, because it is object-oriented, equation-based, declarative, and acausal. These characteristics have enabling the creation of component model libraries that can be used to build larger system simulations for design analysis. The authors have previously developed a numerical framework to model phase change thermal storage and have validated model predictions with experiments. The objectives of this paper are to describe the transfer of the numerical framework to an implementation in a Modelica component model and to validate the Modelica model with data from the experiment and the original numerical framework.

PY - 2021 EP - 194 ST - Energies T2 - Energies TI - Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/1/194 VL - 14 ER -