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Performance Study and Economic Analysis of a Cold Storage Air-Conditioning System Using PCMs in a Subway Station
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Yong HAN1, Yanping LUO1, Feiyan HUANG2, Xiaoming CHEN2, Wenwu ZHANG1, Quan ZHANG3
Urban Rapid Rail Transit | 2025, 38(6) : 72 - 82
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Urban Rapid Rail Transit | 2025, 38(6): 72-82
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Performance Study and Economic Analysis of a Cold Storage Air-Conditioning System Using PCMs in a Subway Station
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Yong HAN1, Yanping LUO1, Feiyan HUANG2, Xiaoming CHEN2, Wenwu ZHANG1, Quan ZHANG3
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  • 1.Guangzhou Metro Design Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510010
  • 2.College of Ecological Environment and Urban Construction, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118
  • 3.College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082
Published: 2025-12-10 doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.06.010
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To reduce the operational cost of air-conditioning systems in subway stations, a cold storage air-conditioning system using phase change materials (PCMs) is proposed. The system can operate in four modes, namely, space cooling and cold charging by chillers, space cooling by chillers, space cooling by cold discharging, space cooling by chillers and cold discharging modes. The PCM used is a commercially available inorganic material, and its phase change temperature range is 7.5℃~8.5℃ and heat of fusion is 140 kJ/kg. The PCM is encapsulated in panel containers. A series of PCM slabs are parallelly arranged in the cold storage tank. The gap between the two adjacent PCM slabs serves as the flow channel for water, which exchanges heat with PCMs to store and release cold energy. The characteristics of chillers and cooling towers are modeled with the curve fitting method using the measured performance data. A dynamic computational model of the cold storage system which consists of a heat transfer numerical model of PCM slabs and the performance curves of chillers and cooling towers is built. The simulations are performed under the measured data in a subway station in Guangzhou. A control strategy is developed, then, the performance of the cold storage system is studied and compared to the conventional air-conditioning system. The variations of the melted fractions of PCMs, the inlet temperature, outlet temperature and water flow rate of cold storage tank, chillers and cooling towers, and the input power of system versus time on May 1st in 2023 are analyzed. In addition, a economic analysis of the proposed cold storage system is performed. The results show that, under the demand tariff, 8.27% annual operational cost is saved by the cold storage system over the conventional system, with a static payback period of 6.3 years. While 13.34% can be saved by the cold storage system against the conventional system under the discounted electricity tariff, with a static payback period of 3.7 years.

subway station  /  air-conditioning system  /  cold storage  /  phase change materials  /  thermal performance  /  economic analysis
韩勇, 罗燕萍, 黄飞燕, 陈晓明, 张文武, 张泉. 地铁车站相变蓄冷空调系统的性能研究及经济性分析. 都市快轨交通, 2025 , 38 (6) : 72 -82 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.06.010
Yong HAN, Yanping LUO, Feiyan HUANG, Xiaoming CHEN, Wenwu ZHANG, Quan ZHANG. Performance Study and Economic Analysis of a Cold Storage Air-Conditioning System Using PCMs in a Subway Station[J]. Urban Rapid Rail Transit, 2025 , 38 (6) : 72 -82 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.06.010
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doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6073.2025.06.010
  • Receive Date:2024-12-27
  • Online Date:2026-10-19
  • Published:2025-12-10
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  • Received:2024-12-27
  • Revised:2025-08-04
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    1.Guangzhou Metro Design Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510010
    2.College of Ecological Environment and Urban Construction, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118
    3.College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082
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