In order to improve the current situation of double energy loss in waste heat
recovery and utilization, according to the factors such as phase change
temperature, thermal conductivity, phase change latent heat, economy, and
safety of thermal storage materials, 70# phase change thermal storage balls
produced by XX company were selected as phase change thermal storage
materials, and differential scanning calorimetry was used to test and
analyze them, and the melting point, freezing point and phase change latent
heat value of PCM were obtained, provide data reference for simulation in
the following text. The shell and tube heat exchanger is selected as the
core component of the mobile heat storage system, and its heat storage and
release processes are simulated using FLUENT software. The results show that
when the heat transfer equipment is charged for 7 hours, almost all of the
inner-heat exchangers have completed the heat supply, and only the phase
change products at both sides and bottom of the heat supply have ?dead
zone?, which is the major effect of heat storage. In order to improve the
heat storage and release rate and break the ?bottleneck? of heat storage,
the heat transfer was strengthened by changing the diameter size,
arrangement, and adding fins of the heat exchange tube. The effects of
straight fins, T-shaped fins, as well as the number, height, thickness, and
width of fins on the heat storage performance were explored. The results
indicate that, adding fins cannot only improve heat transfer efficiency, but
also inhibit natural-convection. The heat storage and release time decreases
to varying degrees with the increase of fin width, thickness, height, and
the number of circumferential fins in a single heat exchange tube.