A Feasible Way to Remove the Heat during Adsorptive Methane Storage

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Gütlein, Stefan ; Burkard, Christoph ; Zeilinger, Johannes ; Niedermaier, Matthias ; Klumpp, Michael ; Kolb, Veronika ; Jess, Andreas ; Etzold, Bastian:
A Feasible Way to Remove the Heat during Adsorptive Methane Storage.
In: Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 49 (2015) Issue 1 . - pp. 672-678.
ISSN 0013-936X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es504141t

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Methane originating from biogas or natural gas is an attractive and environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline. Adsorption is seen as promising storage technology, but the heat released limits fast filling of these systems. Here a lab scale adsorptive methane storage tank, capable to study the temperature increase during fast filling, was realized. A variation of the filling time from 1 h to 31 s, showed a decrease of the storage capacity of 14% and temperature increase of 39.6 °C. The experimental data could be described in good accordance with a finite element simulation solving the transient mass, energy, and impulse balance. The simulation was further used to extrapolate temperature development in real sized car tanks and for different heat pipe scenarios, resulting in temperature rises of approximately 110 °C. It could be clearly shown, that with heat conductivity as solei mechanism the heat cannot be removed in acceptable time. By adding an outlet to the tank a feed flow cooling with methane as heat carrier was realized. This setup was proofed in simulation and lab scale experiments to be a promising technique for fast adsorbent cooling and can be crucial to leverage the full potential of adsorptive methane gas storage.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Institutions of the University:	Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Chair Chemical Engineering Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Chair Chemical Engineering > Chair Chemical Engineering - Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Jess Research Institutions > Research Units > ZET - Zentrum für Energietechnik Research Institutions Research Institutions > Research Units
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	500 Science > 540 Chemistry 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 660 Chemical engineering
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2015 08:30
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2019 10:53
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/5674