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Title: Latent heat thermal storage of nano-enhanced phase change material filled by copper foam with linear porosity variation in vertical direction
Authors: Ghalambaz, M
Shahabadi, M
Mehryan, SAM
Sheremet, M
Younis, O
Talebizadehsardari, P
Yaici, W
Keywords: linear y-direction porosity;melting heat transfer;nano-enhanced phase change material;metal foam
Issue Date: 9-Mar-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Citation: Ghalambaz, M. et al. (2021) ‘Latent Heat Thermal Storage of Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Material Filled by Copper Foam with Linear Porosity Variation in Vertical Direction’, Energies, 14 (5), 1508, pp. 1 - 20. doi: 10.3390/en14051508.
Abstract: Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. The melting flow and heat transfer of copper-oxide coconut oil in thermal energy storage filled with a nonlinear copper metal foam are addressed. The porosity of the copper foam changes linearly from bottom to top. The phase change material (PCM) is filled into the metal foam pores, which form a composite PCM. The natural convection effect is also taken into account. The effect of average porosity; porosity distribution; pore size density; the inclination angle of enclosure; and nanoparticles’ concentration on the isotherms, melting maps, and the melting rate are investigated. The results show that the average porosity is the most important parameter on the melting behavior. The variation in porosity from 0.825 to 0.9 changes the melting time by about 116%. The natural convection flows are weak in the metal foam, and hence, the impact of each of the other parameters on the melting time is insignificant (less than 5%).
Description: Data Availability Statement: Data is contained within the article.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/25166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14051508
Other Identifiers: 1508
ORCID iDs: Mohammad Ghalambaz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0965-2358; Mohammad Shahabadi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2753-9519; S. A. M Mehryan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8812-5905; Obai Younis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1701-9387; Pouyan Talebizadehsardari https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-8701; Wabiha Yaici https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6142-9180.
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