Heat transfer to suspensions of microencapsulated phase change material flowing through minichannels

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dammel, Frank ^a   Stephan, Peter ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

experiments; microencapsulated phase change material (MEPCM); minichannels; numerical simulation; subcooling; suspensions

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SIZE; CHANNEL WALL; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; COOLING CHANNELS; FLOW DIRECTION; HEAT SUPPLY; INLET TEMPERATURE; MASS FLOW RATE; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MICROENCAPSULATED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; MINICHANNELS; N-EICOSANE; NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOR; OUTLET TEMPERATURE; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PARTICLE FRACTION; PARTICLE MASS FRACTION; PRESSURE DROP ESTIMATION; PUMPING POWER; SOLID CORE; SUBCOOLING TEMPERATURE; SUBCOOLINGS; WALL TEMPERATURES; WATER BASED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; PARAFFINS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE DROP; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84555195858     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005062     Document Type: Article

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