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STUDY ON PNEUMATIC CONVEYANCE OF COLD ENERGY USING A PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL ENCLOSED IN SMALL SPHERICAL CAPSULES

Research Project

Project/Area Number 63850044
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Thermal engineering
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

KUROSAKI Yasuo  Professor, Dept. Mech. Eng. for Production, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 工学部, 教授 (70016442)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMADA Jun  Research Associate, Dept. Mech. Eng. for Production, Tokyo Institute of Technolo, 工学部, 助手 (40210455)
SATOH Isao  Research Associate, Dept. Mech. Eng. for Production, Tokyo Institute of Technolo, 工学部, 助手 (10170721)
Project Period (FY) 1988 – 1989
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1989)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥4,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000)
KeywordsCold Energy / Utilization of Latent Heat / Spherical Capsule / Pneumatic Conveyance / Freezing of Supercooled PCM / 冷熱輸送 / 小球カプセル / 潜熱蓄熱 / 空気搬送 / ポンプ動力 / 冷熱損失
Research Abstract

In this research, a refined cold-energy conveying system which reduces the required pump power was proposed and feasibility of the proposed system was discussed. Generally speaking, the conventional cold-energy conveying system, in which the cold-energy is directly transported by chilled brine, requires large pumping power especially when the amount of transporting cold-energy becomes large. In order to overcome the defect of conventional system, the proposed refined system utilizes the latent heat of a phasechange material (PCM) enclosed in a small capsule and the capsules are conveyed with gas flow.
Small scale test loop of the proposed system was constructed to measure the conveying performances and cold-energy conveying performance of the proposed system was compared with the one of conventional system. The results snowed that, under the condition of identical cold-energy conveying rate, the proposed system requires less pumping power than the conventional one especially when the conveying rate of cold-energy becomes large (e.g. > 1 MW). In order to minimize the required pumping power, effects of shapes and sizes of the capsules on the pressure drop were also examined. The results that the pumping power required for vertical transportation of the capsules by using large capsules outer diameter of which is almost similar to the inner diameter of duct, and that spherical capsules require less pump power than cylindrical ones.
In addition to these investigation, the investigators proposed a fluidized-bed-type freezer which make the PCM enclosed in a capsule vibrate to enhance freezing of supercooled PCM, and effects of amplitude and frequency of the vibration on freezing was examined. The results showed that the fluidized-bed-type freezer in which the capsules are fluidized with chilled gaseous medium is suitable for reducing supercooling of PCM enclosed in a small capsule.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1989 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1988 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All Other

All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 黒崎晏夫: "微小カプセル内の潜熱蓄熱媒体による冷熱の空気搬送" 第26回日本伝熱シンポジウム講演論文集. 3. 851-853 (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yasuo KUROSAKI: "Pneumatic Conveyance of Cold Energy using a Phase-Change Material Enclosed in Small Capsules" Proc. 26th National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan, Vol.3, pp.851-853, 1989.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1989 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 黒崎晏夫: "微小カプセル内の潜熱蓄熱媒体による冷熱の空気搬送" 第26回日本伝熱シンポジウム講演論文集. 3. 851-853 (1989)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 黒崎晏夫 他: 第26回日本伝熱シンポジウム講演論文集. (1989)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1988-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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