HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES OF SOLID-STATE HYDROGEN DISCHARGING: A CFD STUDY
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https://doi.org/10.4314/jfas.v12i2.9Keywords:
Metal hydride; LaNi5; Desorption; Numerical simulation; Finite volumesAbstract
This article deals with the numerical simulation of a two-dimensional instantaneous heat and mass transfer processes within a commonly used intermetallic compound (a.k.a. Mischmetal) packed in a unit disc of an annulus-disc reactors, during hydrogen gas desorption. Using the finite volumes technique bundled in the OpenFOAM® CFD code, temperature and amount of desorbed hydrogen and their time-averaged quantities inside the metal-hydride packed bed are obtained for various temperatures of fluids used in heat transfer, and several outlet pressure magnitudes. Using a set of numerical simulations, we have emphasized the impacts of both parameters on metal-hydride reactor performance related to discharging time. An excellent accord was recorded for the present simulations results compared against the literature-reported experimental data
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2020-04-10
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MENACEUR, R.; BOUKHARI, A.; LAOUINI, S. E.; ATTIA, M. E. H. HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES OF SOLID-STATE HYDROGEN DISCHARGING: A CFD STUDY. Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, [S. l.], v. 12, n. 2, p. 650–666, 2020. DOI: 10.4314/jfas.v12i2.9. Disponível em: https://jfas.info/index.php/JFAS/article/view/670. Acesso em: 30 jan. 2025.
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