Numerical modeling and performance comparison of high-temperature metal hydride reactor equipped with bakery system for solar thermal energy storage

State of the Art in Development of Heat Exchanger Geometry Optimization and Different Storage Bed Designs of a Metal Hydride Reactor

“…The authors argued that 19 or more conical fins combined with 4 cooling tubes performed better than 10 fins with the same number of cooling tubes. Later, Ayub I. et al [ 160 ] conducted research on the methodology for optimal design of a metal hydride reactor with conical fins. In their work, the dependences of the number of fins and their pitch on the length of the cooling tube were obtained, as well as the relationship between the parameters of conical fin angle and radius.…”

Review of thermal management technology for metal hydride reaction beds

“…The conical ns (Fig. 7g) 92,93 and perforated ns (Fig. 7h) 45,94 are built, which promote the ease of MH loading and lessen space wastage and powder agglomeration.…”

Numerical study of magnesium-based metal hydride reactor incorporating multi-phase heat exchanger for thermal energy storage system

“…At present, sensible thermal storage, latent thermal storage and thermochemical storage (TCS) are three main approaches applied for the TES. The energy density of the sensible and latent thermal storage is about 108 and 360 kJ/kg, respectively [3]. Compared with these two approaches, the TCS is able to achieve significantly higher energy density, about 2800 kJ/kg for metal hydride MgH 2 .…”