Thermal performance of microencapsulated phase change material slurry in a coil heat exchanger

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Kong, Min Suk ^a   Yu, Kun ^a   Alvarado, Jorge L ^a   Terrell, Wilson ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coil heat exchanger; heat exchanger effectiveness; microencapsulated phase change material; overall heat transfer coefficient; performance efficiency coefficient; pressure drop

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DROPS; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROENCAPSULATION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SLURRIES;

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; FRICTION FACTOR CORRELATION; HIGH VISCOSITIES; MICROENCAPSULATED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 84925831981     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4029819     Document Type: Article

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