Experimental and simulated temperature distribution of an oil-pebble bed thermal energy storage system with a variable heat source

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 1086-1095

  Mawire, A ^a   McPherson, M ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Charging and discharging; Modelling; Oil pebble bed; Simulation; Temperature distribution; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ENERGY STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; FLYWHEELS; GLASS INDUSTRY; HEAT STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NANOSENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

CHARGING AND DISCHARGING; MODELLING; OIL-PEBBLE BED; SIMULATION; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 58549094701     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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