Granular phase change materials for thermal energy storage: Experiments and numerical simulations

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 3149-3159

  Rady, Mohamed ^a  

^a Benha University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Latent heat storage; Packed bed; Phase change

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENTS; BED MATERIALS; CHANGING PARAMETER; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; DURING PHASE; ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITY; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; LIQUID FRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PACKED BED COLUMN; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE TEMPERATURE; SMALL PARTICLES; STORAGE UNITS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLYWHEELS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; LATENT HEAT; PACKED BEDS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); STORAGE (MATERIALS); THERMAL ENERGY;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 67749107957     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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