摘要 |
PURPOSE:To make it possible to increase quantity of steam generation by a method wherein latent heat storing material having its transition and fusion temperatures within the working temperature of a steam accumulator is placed inside a pressure vessel so as to improve thermal accumulation density of a thermal accumulator. CONSTITUTION:Latent heat storing material having their transition and fusion temperatures within the working temperature of the steam accumulator, for example, pentaerythritol which has its transition temperature at 188 deg.C is placed in the pressure vessel 3 directly or in capsulized form to constitute a thermal accumulator. For heat storage, steam is injected into pressurerized water 5 in the pressure vessel 3 out of nozzles 4 through an AVA automatically controlled valve 1 for intake. This causes steam to evolve latent heat so that temperature of the pressurized water 5 rises and successive heat transfer takes place from the pressurized water 5 to the latent heat storing material 6 so as to increase thermal accumulation density by latent heat of fusion or transition of the heat storing material 6. During heat releasing, steam is generated by evaporation of the pressurized water 5 and is blown out of an AVA automatically controlled valve 2 for discharge. |