Engineering, 18.03.2021 01:10 suselygonza

Thermal energy storage systems commonly involve a packed bed of solid spheres, through which a hot gas flows if the system is being charged, or a cold gas if it is being discharged. In a charging process, heat transfer from the hot gas increases thermal energy stored within the colder spheres; during discharge, the stored energy decreases as heat is transferred from the warmer spheres to the cooler gas. Consider a packed bed of 75-mm-diameter aluminum spheres (p = 2,700 kg/m^3; c = 950 J/kgK; k = 240 W/mK) and a charging process for which gas enters the storage unit at a temperature of 300 degrees C. The initial temperature of the spheres is Ti = 25 degrees C and the convection heat transfer coefficient is h = 75 W/m^2K. a. How long does it take a sphere near the inlet of the system to accumulate 90% of the maximum possible thermal energy? What is the corresponding temperature at the center of the sphere?
b. Is there any advantage to using copper (p = 8,900 kg/m^3; c = 380 J/kgK; k = 390W/mK) instead of aluminum?
c. Consider the same packed bed operating conditions, but with Pyrex (p = 2,200 kg/m^3; c = 840 J/kgK; k = 1.4 W/m*K) used instead of aluminum. How long does it take a sphere near the inlet of the system to accumulate 90% of the maximum possible thermal energy? What is the corresponding temperature at the center of the sphere?

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