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Experimental study of solidification of fructose with various rates of cooling

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Number of phase change materials are used for storing energy. The performance of one such material (fructose) during discharge was analysed based on energy and exergy. The flow rate of heat transfer fluid was varied from 500 lit/hr to 2500 lit/hr. Intuitively higher flow rate is preferred. But results revealed that optimum flow rate is 1500 lit/hr which showed at most two-fold raise in energy and exergy transfer rates. Additionally two existing non dimensional numbers (Total and Melting Stefan number) and a new Stefan number (PCM Stefan number) was introduced to analyse the heat transfer process.

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  1. Department of Mechanical engineering, PSG college of technology, Coimbatore, Tamil nadu, India

    Vignes Karthic VBA & Kannan K

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VBA, V.K., K, K. Experimental study of solidification of fructose with various rates of cooling. Heat Mass Transfer 58, 1667–1678 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-022-03195-1

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