Sub cooling of PCM due to various effects during solidification in a vertical concentric tube thermal storage unit

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 505-511

  Solomon, Gnanadurai Ravikumar ^a   Karthikeyan, S ^b   Velraj, Ramalingam ^b  

^a HINDUSTAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Latent heat storage; Nucleation process; Phase change materials; Solidification; Sub cooling; Temperature plateau

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRIC TUBE; COOLING APPLICATIONS; COOLING RATES; EFFICIENT DESIGNS; ENTRY REGION; HEAT STORAGE UNITS; HEAT TRANSFER SURFACES; HEAT TRANSPORT; INLET VELOCITY; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; NUCLEATION PROCESS; RADIAL LOCATIONS; SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS; SOLIDIFICATION TEMPERATURE; SUBCOOLINGS; TEMPERATURE PLATEAUS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL STORAGE UNITS; TIME SPAN;

HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; LIQUIDS; NUCLEATION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLIDIFICATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COOLING;

EID: 84872773659     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.12.030     Document Type: Article

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