Fabrication and analysis of small-scale thermal energy storage with conductivity enhancement

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 161-170

  Thapa, Suvhashis ^a   Chukwu, Sam ^a   Khaliq, Abdul ^a   Weiss, Leland ^a  

^a Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy scavenging; Heat exchanger; Micro; Phase change; Thermal storage

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY SCAVENGING; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; MICRO; PHASE CHANGE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; THERMAL STORAGE;

COPPER; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84891704101     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.12.019     Document Type: Article

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