Numerical simulation of absorption-desorption cyclic processes for metal-hydrogen reactor with heat recovery using phase-change material

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 267-276

  Ben Mâad, Hatem ^a   Miled, Amel ^a   Askri, Faouzi ^a,b   Ben Nasrallah, Sassi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Heat and mass transfer; Hydrogen storage; Latent heat storage; Metal hydrides; Numerical simulation; Phase change material

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; MASS TRANSFER; METALS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); WASTE HEAT;

ABSORPTION-DESORPTION; ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION; CONTROL-VOLUME FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAVISIDE STEP FUNCTION; METAL HYDRIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 84950119159     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.11.093     Document Type: Article

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