The thesis deals with the field of thermochemical heat storage, namely adsorption storage. In recent years, thermochemical energy storage has gained a lot of interest. Most of the current research focuses on adsorption heat storage; testing of new adsorption materials and system configurations. The progress of these alone shows that adsorption heat storage would be a fairly realistic and sustainable option for seasonal heat storage. In the second section, the design of the experimental setup is presented, where 48 measurements were conducted for various lengths of adsorbent bed. The material tested was Zeolite 13X, with bed lengths ranging from 3 cm to 10 cm. Based on the measurements, we conducted energy and mass balances using parameters obtained from the experimental setup. From the obtained results, we noticed that the accumulated heat and storage density were significantly lower for longer bed lengths.
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