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The energy crisis in the present scenario is the main motive force behind development of energy conservation opportunities, thermal energy from solar and various process industries has the opportunity to harvest the available energy. The existing materials possess relatively lower thermophysical properties which makes unsuitable for thermal storage application. To improve the thermophysical properties of phase change material, nanoparticles are dispersed. A bounded domain of square geometry was considered for the numerical study. The composite phase change material (Paraffin wax as base and copper nanoparticles as additives) has shown the enhanced thermophysical properties compared to base material at different volume fractions, but only up to certain limit. The nanoparticles improved the thermophysical properties only up to 5% loading and above this value, it showed the adverse effect on thermal energy storage applications. The presented results conclude composite phase change materials with optimum concentration have the great potential towards the energy conservation opportunities.
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Abbreviations
- TES:
-
Thermal energy storage
- PCM:
-
Phase change material
- NP:
-
Nanoparticles
- CPCM:
-
Composite phase change material
- GNF:
-
Graphite nanofibers
- CNT:
-
Carbon nanotubes
- Ρ :
-
Density
- µ :
-
Viscosity
- Φ :
-
Mass fraction
- K :
-
Thermal conductivity
- Cp :
-
Specific heat capacity
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Chavan, S., Gumtapure, V., Perumal, D.A. (2020). Numerical Analysis of Composite Phase Change Material in a Square Enclosure. In: Singh, S., Ramadesigan, V. (eds) Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 1. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2666-4_35
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