Experimental study on melting/solidification characteristics of a paraffin as PCM

By Mithat Akgün, Orhan Aydin, K. Kaygusuz. 2007

317 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. Mohammad Javad Hosseini
2. A. Ranjbar
3. Lei Song
4. Chao Xu
5. Yuan Hu
6. Lijun Yang
7. Jia-ling Yang
8. R. M. Sarviya

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Mohammad Javad Hosseini
2. A. Ranjbar
3. R. M. Sarviya
4. Kurosh Sedighi
5. Ashish Agarwal
6. R. Bahrampoury

Citations in the corpus

• An experimental investigation of shell and tube latent heat storage for solar dryer using paraffin wax as heat storage material (2016, background): “[15] experimentally evaluated the melting and solidification behaviors of PCM in a vertical shell and tube heat exchanger.”
• A combined experimental and computational study on the melting behavior of a medium temperature phase change storage material inside shell and tube heat exchanger (2012, methodology): “[16] conducted an experimental study to investigate the melting and solidification processes of paraffin as PCM in a tube in the vertical shell heat exchanger system.”
• Effect of expanded graphite on properties of high-density polyethylene/paraffin composite with intumescent flame retardant as a shape-stabilized phase change material (2010, background): “Several candidate PCMs such as fatty acids and paraffin have been studied recently for use as latent heat storage materials [4,5].”