Silica dopant effect on the performance of calcium carbonate/calcium oxide based thermal energy storage system

Author:

Khosa Azhar1,Shah Najam-Ul-Hassan2,Han Xinyue1,Husnain Naveed3

Affiliation:

1. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Abstract

CaCO3 is being studied for its application in thermal energy storage. However, it has drawbacks of slow reaction rate during calcination and incomplete reversible carbonation which limit its use. In this paper, SiO2 has been studied as a dopant for CaCO3 to improve its cyclic performance. CaCO3 samples were loaded with different concentrations of SiO2 and its effect on the thermal energy density of CaCO3 was determined. Afterwards, the effect of the dopant on the heat storage process of the synthesized composite along with kinetics of decarbonation reaction was investigated. Cyclic tests were performed to determine the reusability of the material. It was found that the addition of dopant helped to increase the rate of decarbonation reaction, thereby making the heat storage process more efficient as compared to pure CaCO3. The activation energy values are 255.9, 280.1, 244.9 and 234.8 kJ/mol for 5%, 15%, 30% and 0% doped SiO2 samples, respectively. Furthermore, thermal energy storage density increases when the amount of dopant decreases in the samples such as the 30% and 5% doped samples have gravimetric energy storage densities of 339.85 and 759.24 J/g, respectively. It was observed that the large quantities (15% and 30%) of dopant had introduced a new phase of Ca3SiO5 during CaCO3 decomposition.

Publisher

National Library of Serbia

Subject

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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