Abstract
An ice storage system using supercooled water has been developed. In this system, only water is circulated and slurry-ice is stored in tanks. Since one of the critical components of the system is the supercooing heat exchanger, the first step in component development consisted in verification of stable conditions for supercooling water control by basic and integrated experiments. The results of these experiments yielded designcriteria concerning the degree of wall supercooling and the inlet water temperatures (i.e.,conditions for absence of ice nuclei). In addition, realistic operating techniques for supercooling heat exchangers with redundancy have been demonstrated by the field experiment.
