Heat Transfer and Storage in Architectured Composite Heatsinks – ONR
Senior Personnel: P. Shamberger (PI), J. Felts (Co-PI), A. Elwany (Co-PI)
Energy Storage such as batteries is quickly becoming the largest obstacle to the wide scale adoption of renewable energy sources so the development of novel energy storage mechanisms is vital. Thermal Energy Storage(TES) has been proposed as a new method for storing energy, and Phase Change Materials(PCM) offer an exciting alternative to conventional specific heat methods by taking advantage of materials latent heat. This approach allows for cheap, repeatable, high density, and isothermal storage of large amounts of thermal energy, providing major system improvements to temperature dependent processes such as HVAC systems, solar energy capture, and even thermal buffering for micro electronics. Like electrochemical batteries, a major area of interest in optimizing this energy storage. PHATE lab works to optimize the design of TES PCM composites as part of an industry/academia collaboration providing tools for those developing thermal energy storage. We develop both experimental and computational methods to compare TES systems across materials, geometry, and operating conditions to discover the optimal module for every application.
Key Publications:
- A. Tamraparni, A. Hoe*, M. Deckard*, C. Zhang, N. Malone, A. Elwany, P.J. Shamberger, J. Felts. Design and optimization of composite phase change material for cylindrical thermal energy storage, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 208, 123995 (2023). doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.123995
- A. Hoe*, A. Tamraparni, C. Zhang, A. Elwany, J. Felts, P.J. Shamberger. Design of Radially Variant Phase Change Material Composites, Adv. Eng. Mater., 2200841 (2022). doi: 10.1002/adem.202200841
- A. Hoe*, J. Felts, P.J. Shamberger. Numerical Evaluation of Thermal Energy Storage Rate in Planar and Cylindrical Phase Change Material Composites, J Energy Storage, 55(A), 105430 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.est.2022.105430
- M. Shanks, C.M. Shoalmire*, M. Deckard*, K. Gohil, H. Lewis II, D. Lin, P.J. Shamberger, N. Jain, Design of Spatial Variability in Thermal Energy Storage Modules for Enhanced Power Density Applied Energy, Applied Energy, 314, 118966 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118966
- A. Hoe*, M.T. Barako, A. Tamraparni, C. Zhang, A. Elwany, J. Felts, P.J. Shamberger. Objective Oriented Phase Change Material Composite Heat Sink Design, Applied Thermal Eng., 209, 118235 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118235
- C. Zhang, A. Banerjee, A. Hoe*, A. Tamraparni, J. Felts, P.J. Shamberger, A. Elwany. Design for laser powder bed additive manufacturing of AlSi12 periodic mesoscale lattice structures, Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol. (2021). doi: 10.1007/s00170-021-06817-w
- A. Tamraparni, A. Hoe*, M. Deckard*, C. Zhang, P.J. Shamberger, A. Elwany, J. Felts. Design and optimization of lamellar phase change composites for thermal energy storage, Adv. Eng. Mtls., 2001052 (2020). doi: 10.1002/adem.202001052
- A. Hoe*, M. Deckard*, A. Tamraparni, A. Elwany, J. Felts, P.J. Shamberger. Conductive Heat Transfer in Lamellar Phase Change Material Composites, Appl. Therm. Eng. 178, 115553 (2020). doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.115553
- K. Yazawa, P.J. Shamberger, T. Fisher. Ragone Relations for Thermal Energy Storage Technologies, Frontiers in Mech. Eng., 5, 29 (2019). doi: 10.3389/fmech.2019.00029
- Shamberger, P.J., T. Fisher. Cooling Power and Characteristic Times of Composite Heatsinks and Insulants, J. Heat Mass Transfer, 117, 1205-1215 (2018). doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.10.085
- Shamberger, P.J.. Cooling Capacity Figure of Merit for Phase Change Materials, J. of Heat Transfer, 138(2), 024502 1-7 (2016). doi: 10.1115/1.4031252