Thermal enhancement of charge and discharge cycles for adsorbed natural gas storage
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Rahman, Kazi AfzalurLoh, Wai Soong
Chakraborty, Anutosh
Saha, Bidyut Baran
Chun, Won Gee
Ng, Kim Choon

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R265-000-286-597Date
2011-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599992
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The usage of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) storage is hindered by the thermal management during the adsorption and desorption processes. An effective thermal enhancement is thus essential for the development of the ANG technology and the motivation for this study is the investigation of a gas storage system with internal thermal control. We employed a fin-tube type heat exchanger that is placed in a pressurized cylinder. A distributed-parameter model is used for the theoretical modeling and simulations are conducted at assorted charging and discharging conditions. These studies included the transient thermal behaviours of the elements within the ANG-charged cylinder and parameters such as pressure and temperature profiles of adsorbent have been obtained during charge and discharge cycles, and results are compared with a conventional compressed methane vessel. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Citation
Rahman KA, Loh WS, Chakraborty A, Saha BB, Chun WG, et al. (2011) Thermal enhancement of charge and discharge cycles for adsorbed natural gas storage. Applied Thermal Engineering 31: 1630–1639. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.02.002.Sponsors
The authors' gratefully acknowledge the financial support given by grants (R33-2009-000-101660) from World Class University (WCU) Project of the National Research Foundation, Korea, (R265-000-268-305) from A*STAR/MPA, Singapore and (R265-000-286-597) from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Applied Thermal Engineeringae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.02.002