Design and optimization of ice-on coil latent thermal storage system

In this thesis study, the effects of various operation conditions to cool storage in latent thermal energy storage system with spiral pipes, is investigated experimentally and the results are compared with the numerical data. The aim of the study is to reveal the optimum operation condition of the thermal energy storage for required cooling load by using the numerical and experimental results. It is exposed that the inlet temperature of the fluid is more influential to increase the energy stored rather than the volumetric flow rate and the numerical code, which basis on enthalpy method, have a good approximation with experimental results for low Reynolds numbers.