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Experimental Investigation Of The Melting Behavior And The Transient Heat Transfer In A Phase Change Material (Pcm), Mohammad A. Bashar
Experimental Investigation Of The Melting Behavior And The Transient Heat Transfer In A Phase Change Material (Pcm), Mohammad A. Bashar
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Phase change materials (PCMs) used in thermal energy storage (TES) system as heat storage media can play crucial role in various engineering applications. PCMs have the inherent ability to store large amount of heat by exploiting their heat of fusions, predominantly during their solid-liquid phase-change period. The present study reports an experimental investigation on the melting process in a PCM and the associated heat transfer in a transient manner. The experiments were conducted in a rectangular chamber filled with paraffin wax used as the PCM and, a cylindrical copper tube with different geometries and orientations as the heat source.
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