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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 120-126Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.11.005
Keywords
Freezing; Nano-enhanced phase change materials (NePCM); Nanoparticle suspensions; Thermal conductivity enhancement; Thermal energy storage; Unidirectional solidification
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- United States Government
- US Department of Energy [DE-SC0002470]
- Alabama EPSCoR under Graduate Research Scholars Program
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An experimental investigation of nanoparticle suspensions utilized as nano-enhanced phase change materials (NePCM) was conducted. Cyclohexane-based NePCM samples were prepared with copper oxide nanoparticles with various mass concentrations. Thermal conductivity of the samples was measured using the transient plane source technique for both liquid and solid phases at multiple temperatures. Unidirectional freezing of the samples was investigated and the experimental results were compared with the numerical predictions of a one-dimensional Stefan model proposed earlier by the authors. It was shown that the measured thermal conductivity for samples in their liquid phase is enhanced with increasing concentration of nanoparticles, whereas the data in the solid phase exhibit a non-monotonic enhancement when the concentration is greater than 2%. Unidirectional freezing was found to be expedited by up to 5.2%. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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