Phase change heat transfer enhancement using copper porous foam

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Siahpush, Ali ^a   O'Brien, James ^a   Crepeau, John ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase change; Porous media; Scale analysis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CYLINDERS (CONTAINERS); CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EXPERIMENTS; FREEZING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; PARAFFINS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ANALYTICAL STUDIES; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES; EICOSANE; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FRONT MOTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCES; HEAT TRANSFER RATES; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE FRONTS; PHASE CHANGES; PHASE-CHANGE HEAT TRANSFERS; POROUS FOAMS; POROUS MEDIA; SCALE ANALYSIS; SCALING ANALYSIS; SHAPE DATUMS; SOLID/LIQUID; SOLID/LIQUID INTERFACES; THERMAL RESISTANCES; VERTICAL CYLINDERS;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 56449087295     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2928010     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (29)

1. Viskanta, R., Bathelt, R., and Hale, N. W., 1980, "Latent Heat-of-Fusion Energy Storage: Experiments on Heat Transfer During Solid-Liquid Phase Change," Alternative Energy Sources III: Proceedings of the Third Miami Conference on Alternative Energy Sources, Hemisphere, Washington, DC.
2. Carslaw, H. S., and Jaeger, J. C., 1959, Conduction of Heat in Solids, Clarendon, Oxford, England.
3. Majumdar, A. S., Ashraf, F. A., and Weber, M. E., 1979, "PMC Thermal Energy Storage in Cylindrical Containers of Various Configurations," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Alternative Energy Sources, Miami, Dec.
4. Pannu, J., Joglekar, G., and Rice, P. A., 1980, "Natural Convection Heat Transfer to Cylinders of Phase Change Material Used for Thermal Storage," AIChE Symp. Ser., 76(198), pp. 47-55.
5. Sparrow, E. M., and Broadbent, J. A., 1983, "Freezing in a Vertical Tube," ASME J. Heat Transfer, 105, pp. 217-225.
6. Lunardini, V. J., 1991, Heat Transfer With Freezing and Thawing, Elsevier Science, New York.
7. Poulikakous, D., 1994, Conduction Heat Transfer, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
8. Akgün, M., Aydin, O., and Kaygusuz, K., 2007, "Experimental Study on Melting/Solidification Characteristics of a Paraffin as PCM," Energy Convers. Manage., 48, pp. 669-678.
9. Koh, J. C. Y., and Stevens, R. L., 1976, "Enhancement of Cooling Effectiveness by Porous Material in Coolant Passage," ASME J. Heat Transfer, 97, pp. 309-311.
10. Weaver, J. A., and Viskanta, R., 1986, "Freezing of Liquid-Saturated Porous Media," ASME J. Heat Transfer, 108, pp. 654-659.
11. Weaver, J. A., and Viskanta, R., 1986, "Melting of Frozen, Porous Media Contained in a Horizontal or Vertical Cylinder Capsule," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 29, pp. 1943-1951.
12. Tong, X., and Khan, J. A., 1996, "Enhancement of Heat Transfer by Inserting a Metal Matrix Into a Phase Change Material," Numer. Heat Transfer, Part A, 30, pp. 125-141.
13. Py, X., Olives, R., and Mauran, S., 2001, "Paraffin/ Porous-Graphite-Matrix Composite as a High and Constant Power Thermal Storage Material," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 44, pp. 2727-2737.
14. Trelles, J. P., and Dufly, J. J., 2003, "Numerical Simulation of Porous Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage for Thermoelectric Cooling," Appl. Therm. Eng., 23, pp. 1647-1664.
15. Mesalhy, O., Lafdi, K., Elgafy, A., and Bowman, K., 2005, "Numerical Study for Enhancing the Thermal Conductivity of Phase Change Material (PCM) Storage Using High Thermal Conductivity Porous Matrix," Energy Convers. Manage., 46, pp. 847-867.
16. Bejan, A., 1995, Convection Heat Transfer, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York.
17. Bejan, A., 2003, "Simple Methods for Convection in Porous Media: Scale Analysis and the Intersection of Asymptotes," Int. J. Energy Res., 27, pp. 859-874.
18. Kim, S., and Kim, M. C., 2002, "A Scale Analysis of Turbulent Heat Transfer Driven by Buoyancy in a Porous Layer With Homogeneous Heat Sources," Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer, 29, pp. 127-134.
19. Sarris, I. E., Lekakis, I., and Vlachos, N. S., 2004, "Natural Convection in Rectangular Tanks Heated Locally From Below," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 47, pp. 3549-3563.
20. Hale, D. V., Hoover, M. J., and O'Neill, M. J., 1971, "Phase Change Handbook," NASA Contractor Report No. NASA-CR-61363.
21. Incropera, F. P., and Dewitt, D. P., 1990, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Wiley, New York.
22. Siahpush, A., 2002, "Performance of Solid/Liquid Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage Systems Through the Use of a High Conductivity Porous Metal Matrix," Ph.D. thesis University of Idaho, Idaho.
23. Beckermann, C., and Viskanta, R., 1988, "Natural Convection Solid/ Liquid Phase Change in Porous Medium," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 31, pp. 35-46.
24. Calmidi, V. V., and Mahajan, R. L., 1999, "The Effective Thermal Conductivity of High Porosity Fibrous Metal Foams," ASME J. Heat Transfer, 121, pp. 466-471.
25. Coleman, H. W., and Steele, W. G., 1989, Experimentation and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Wiley, New York.
26. Jany, P., and Bejan, A., 1988, "Scale of Melting in the Presence of Natural Convection in a Rectangular Cavity Filled With Porous Medium," ASME J. Heat Transfer, 110, pp. 526-528.
27. Jany, P., and Bejan, A., 1988, "Scaling Theory of Melting With Natural Convection in an Enclosure," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 31(6), pp. 1221-1235.
28. Jany, P., and Bejan, A., 1987, "Melting in Presence of Natural Convection in a Rectangular Cavity Filled With Porous Medium," Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, Report No. DU-AB-4.
29. Burmeister, L. C., 1993, Convective Heat Transfer, Wiley, New York.