... energy storage density at a constant temperature corresponding to its phase transition temperature. In this paper, a high temperature PCM (melting temperature of 80 ° C ) made of a composite of paraffin and graphite was tested to determine its thermal properties. Tests were conducted with a differential...

...David MacPhee; Ibrahim Dincer The solidification and melting processes in a spherical geometry are investigated in this study. The capsules considered are filled with de-ionized water, so that a network of spheres can be thought of as being the storage medium for an encapsulated ice storage module...

... of 2, 3, 4, and 6 cm. A detailed temperature field is obtained within the spheres using 10 thermocouple wires. Values of the air velocity and temperature used in the experiments are 4–10 m/s and 60–90°C, respectively. Measured times for melting and solidification varied over a range of 5–15 and 2–5...

... Aug 2000 01 Jan 2001 furnaces solar energy concentrators solar absorber-convertors melting metallurgical industries aluminium solar heating environmental factors Many important inorganic processes like the high temperature treatment of low calorific wastes have a high...

...Yinping Zhang; Yan Su; Yingxin Zhu; Xianxu Hu During melting of phase change materials (PCM) encapsulated in a container, the solid PCM sinks to the bottom or floats to the top of the container according to the gravitational force and buoyancy resulting from the difference between solid and liquid...

...Sergei A. Fomin; Alexander V. Wilchinsky; Takeo S. Saitoh An approximate mathematical model of contact melting in a horizontal elliptic cylinder is developed. The main characteristic scales and nondimensional parameters that describe the principal features of the melting process are found...

... is found to be more significant than that in the void; Including the radiation heat transfer in the liquid resulted in lower temperatures (about 15 K) and increased the melting time (about 10 min.); Generally, most of the heat flow takes place in the radial direction. 2) Space Experiments, Radiation heat...