Heat transfer and energy storage performances of phase change materials encapsulated in honeycomb cells

Numerical study of heat gradient and crossing energy to around building walls containing phase change materials in Kashan temperature conditions

The application of phase change materials (PCM) in the variant parts of building because of the high capacity these materials, lead to an improvement in temperature conditions and reduction in energy consumption. Due to the high dependency of the performance of these materials to the ambient temperature fluctuations, their applications in climates with extreme temperature fluctuations has a sig...

Nano-Encapsulated Smart Tunable Phase Change Materials

Solidfication of Phase Change Materials Encapsulated in Vertical Tubes

Solidification of phase change materials encapsulated in a vertical shell which contains also the heat transfer fluid tubes is studied using a fixed grid numerical model. The solution of the system consists of adopting a velocity field of a complete developed flow coupled with the energy equations of the heat transfer fluid (HTF), the pipe wall and the phase change material (PCM). The control v...

Effect of Using Nano Encapsulated Phase Change Material on Thermal Performance of Micro Heat Sink

The aim of this paper is to enhance thermal performance of a microchannel heat sink by using nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) slurry as a cooling fluid instead of pure fluid. A threedimensional model of a circular channel using water slurry of NEPCM was developed. The results show a significant reduction in the mean fluid temperature along the channel and heat sink wall temperatu...

Experimental Study on Solar Energy Storage Using Phase Change Materials in Spherical Shell Storage System

Storing of available energy for later use is a necessity in the present world, one such method is using Phase Change Materials (PCMs). PCMs need a heat transfer medium to transfer the energy from the source to the PCM. In this present work spherical balls are used to store the PCM and water is used as a heat transfer fluid. Paraffin wax (PW) and Palmitic acid (PA) and (4060% PW-PA) eutectic mix...