Fred,There are a few ice storage tanks in the online library of free TRNSYS components. At one point, we wrote a PV model that had a phase change material built into the panel. If I recall, we solved the specific heat issue by defining a specific heat of liquid and a specific heat of solid, then linerarly interpolating the specific heat between the two values, then writing code to figure out how much energy was banked by the phase change material between the totally melted and totally solid points, holding temperature constant in between.
Best, David Fred Betz wrote:
Has anyone used a storage tank to model phase change materials in a storage application? Is there another component to do this?I know you can change the specific heat of the contents of the storage tank, but how do you add the heat of fusion? I would rather not attempt to create some made up specific heat to account for that as the temperature profile would be wrong.Please advise, FredFRED BETZ PhD., LEED AP SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS ANALYST AEI | AFFILIATED ENGINEERS, INC. 5802 Research Park Blvd. | Madison, WI 53719P: 608.236.1175 | F: 608.238.2614 fbetz@aeieng.com | www.aeieng.com_______________________________________________ TRNSYS-users mailing list TRNSYS-users@cae.wisc.edu https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/trnsys-users
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