Advances in New and Renewable Energy

Performance Enhancement of Latent Heat Storage Units Based on Efficient Contact Melting

Peng HUANG, Yongping HUANG, Chengbin ZHANG

Advances in New and Renewable Energy, 2025, 13(1): 17-25. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-560X.2025.01.003

Table 1 Thermophysical properties of phase change material and solid material

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Fig. 1 Geometry of latent heat storage unit
Fig. 2 Flowchart of the solution process
Fig. 3 Meshing (a) and independence verification (b)
Fig. 4 Comparison of experimental and numerical results for liquid fraction
Fig. 5 Evolutionary characteristics of solid-liquid phase change behavior under different melting modes: (a) liquid fraction; (b) velocity distribution
Fig. 6 Liquid fraction and complete melting time in different melting modes
Fig. 7 Characteristics of dynamic temperature distribution in different melting modes
Fig. 8 Effect of inlet temperature on contact melting performance
Fig. 9 Effect of volume flow rate on contact melting performance