Experimental Study of Melting and Solidification of Paraffin Wax with dispersion of Al2O3 in Rectangular Enclosure
Journal Title: GRD Journal for Engineering - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
In this experimental based research work, the performance of Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS) during charging (melting) and discharging (solidification) processes were studied under varying conditions. The results from the CFD simulations for these conditions were published earlier. Here, the experimental results had been discussed. Paraffin wax concentration was varied to form the TESS. Al2O3 was included as nano-material with a varying concentration – 0% (Base Model), 1% (Variant-1), 2% (Variant-2) and 3% (Variant-3). It was observed that the Variant-1 had provided better performance for Configuration A under the heat load of 125 W and 175 W in the melting process. During the solidification process for the Configuration B, Base Model had better performance than the variants with nano-fluids. Results from CFD simulations as well as experimental procedure were in good agreement for this research work.
Authors and Affiliations
R. R. Jadhav, S. Y. Bhosale, A. V. Waghmare, H. N. Deshpande
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP291467
- DOI -
- Views 74
- Downloads 0
Positioning of Conveyor Belt and Loadcell Measurement
Most of the conveyor applications are run at constant speed or at variable speed. It can be achieved by three various methods. They are pulse control, velocity control and network control. The position of a belt will be...
Study of Piled Raft Foundation with Consideration to Soil Structure Interaction
Analysis of combined piled raft foundation proves to be an effective tool to bear the stresses and reduce the settlement of the foundation. Efforts have been made to optimize the parameters of pile raft foundation. In or...
Outrigger and Belt Truss System for Tall Building to Control Deflection: A Review
Accumulation of growing population especially in developing countries has resulted in an increased height of buildings, this need creating impact on structural development of tall building. As building increases in heigh...
Utilization of Rainwater Harvesting and Runoff Water to different Aspect in Niyol Village
Urbanization has become a common feature of Indian society. Growth of industries as a result of industrialization, people have started moving towards the industrial areas in search of employment. These have resulted in t...
A Survey of Information Extraction Using Different Databases
Information extraction is one time process for extraction of a particular kind of relationships of interest from a document collection. Information Extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured informatio...