Experimental investigations on a sensible heat thermal energy storage system towards the design of cascaded latent heat storage system

Abstract

Effective utilization of solar energy is one of the major sustainable newlinesolutions to meet ever-increasing energy demand in various applications. newlineExternal type compound parabolic concentrating (XCPC) solar collectors newlinehave received greater attention in recent years owing to the non-requirement newlineof the complex tracking mechanism. These XCPC collectors exhibit superior newlineperformance while integrated with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system, newlinereducing the mismatch between the demand and supply in various newlinecooling/heating applications. Identification of significant operating newlineparameters in the design of the XCPC solar collector is crucial for achieving newlinethe targeted performance, which necessitates the optimized design of the newlineXCPC collector. This can be attained through parametric studies of XCPC newlinecollector using the statistical analysis of simulated results. Considering the newlineabove, this research work aims to carry out the simulation analysis of the newlineXCPC collector integrated with TES system under the climatic conditions of newlineChennai. newline