Recent advancements in low-temperature thermal storage and cold energy storage systems have sparked significant interest for their potential to enhance utilization rates and reduce carbon footprints. Ice slurry, a slurry aqueous solution composed of ice crystal particles averaging less than 1 mm in size, offers compelling prospects with its unique characteristics, including improved fluid flow and thermal performance due to the relatively small particle size and large specific surface area.
We build a novel opposed-nozzle impinging jet to avoid the issue of ice blockage that happens in conventional ice generators, which in turn improves the thermal performance and provides approximately 4 times more ice production. We further upgrades the system by adding nanoparticles (e.g., GO, GO-Al2O3) and increasing the phase change cycles.
