HEAT AND MASS-TRANSFER IN COUPLED HYDRIDE REACTION BEDS

The investigation of the dynamic behaviour of coupled reaction beds of thermally driven dry sorption machines with metal hydrides as working materials is of particular interest due to their cyclic working condi tions. Development and optimization of such devices require highly sop histicated computational design methods. The developed mathematical mo del and numerical discretization method are described. Detailed comput er simulations of the heat and mass transfer in and between coupled re action beds show good agreement with experimental results.