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Title: Characterization of metals and salts-based thermal energy storage materials using energy balance method
Authors: Agarwala, S.
Prabhu, N.K.
Issue Date: 2019
Citation: Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 2019, Vol.48, 5, pp.1889-1898
Abstract: Thermal energy storage technologies minimize the imbalance between energy production and demand. In this context, latent heat storage materials are of great importance as they have a higher density of energy storage as compared with the sensible heat storage materials. The present study involves the characterization of energy storage materials using an energy balance cooling curve analysis method. The method estimates the convective heat transfer coefficient in the solidification range to characterize the phase change materials for applications in energy storage. The method is more beneficial than the Computer Aided Cooling Curve analysis methods as it eliminates baseline calculations and the associated fitting errors. Metals (Sn) and salts (KNO3 and NaNO 3) were used in the present work. Phase change characteristics like the rate of cooling, liquidus and solidus temperatures, time for solidification, and enthalpy of phase change were estimated for both metals and salts. It was observed that the energy balance cooling curve analysis method worked very well for metals but not well suited for low conductivity salts. Salts could not be characterized since the thermal gradient existing within the salt sample was not considered in this method. 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
URI: http://idr.nitk.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10189
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