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Krishna Modi
Neel Vadera
Outline :
INTRODUCTION
CASE STUDY I
Heat transfer characteristics of silica aerogel composite
materials: Structure reconstruction and numerical
modelling
CASE STUDY II
Numerical and experimental study on the heat transfer
properties of the composite paraffin/expanded graphite
phase change material
REFERENCES
CASE STUDY I
Heat transfer characteristics of silica aerogel
composite materials: Structure reconstruction and
numerical modelling
Introduction :
Silica aerogel is a kind of nonporous super insulation
material. Usually reinforcing fibres and opacifier particles
added into aerogel materials to enhance its ability of
restraining radiation heat transfer and improving its
strength.
The addition of fibres and Opacifiers cannot only affect heat
conduction of the material, but also influencing the
absorption and scattering of radiation which lead to the
extinction of radiation heat transfer.
Thus, combined conduction and radiation heat transfer of
multiphase materials is an important feature of heat
transfer of aerogel composite insulation materials.
there are some assumptions existing in these theoretical
models which would inevitably cause calculation errors, for
example:
1. Assuming that all the fibres are distributed in an idealized
distribution form.
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Conclusion:
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CASE STUDY II
Numerical and experimental study on the heat
transfer properties of the composite
paraffin/expanded graphite phase change material
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INTRODUCTION
The PCM has the characteristic that, when the phase
change happens, the potential energy of phase change
can be absorbed or released without variance of
temperature. Such characteristic are applied in many
industry fields, such as solar energy utilization, heat
reclaim of the industrial stove, heat insulation and
preservation of the buildings, electric power, aeronautics,
spin, etc.. This technology called phase change heat
storage is important to improve the efficiency of energy
consuming and to protect the environment.
The composite phase change materials (PCMs) can be
obtained by heating and compressing the mixture of
expanded graphite (EG) and paraffin, and they have high
anisotropic thermal conductivity. The phase-change heat
transfer properties of the composite paraffin/EG PCMs are
studied numerically and experimentally. In the numerical
simulation, the phase change heat transfer model is
simplified as a one-dimensional monolayer, and the
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monolayer is heated by two stable heat fluxes at both
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(1)
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(2)
Differential equation of heat transfer and
its discrete form
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Conclusion
The paraffin/EG composite PCMs have high thermal
conductivity, and the three-dimensional thermal conductivities are
anisotropic. In this work, the composite PCMs are simplified as a
one-dimensional single-layer that is heated with two stable heat
fluxes from both sides respectively, and the corresponding phase
change physical heat transfer model is established. The heat
transfer properties of the paraffin/EG composite PCMs are studied
both numerically and experimentally. The results of numerical
simulation match perfectly with those of experiment. The following
conclusions can be drawn:
The anisotropic properties of the thermal conductivities of the
paraffin/EG Composite PCM is very obvious, and it influences the
phase change heat transfer violently.
The larger the thermal conductivity along the direction of the
heat flow, the later the start time of the phase change, the
earlier the end time of the phase change, the shorter the time
for melting the composite PCMs, and more uniform the
temperature distribution along the width direction.
Considering the conductivity anisotropy of the paraffin/EG
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Composite PCM, the direction with the big thermal conductivity
References
C. Zhenqian, G. Mingwei, P. Donghua, Heat transfer performance
analysis of a solar flat-plate collector with an integrated metal
foam porous structure filled with paraffin, Appl. Thermal Eng. 30
(2010) 19671973.
Heat transfer characteristics of silica aerogel composite
materials:Structure reconstruction and numerical modeling
Numerical and experimental study on the heat transfer
properties of the composite paraffin/expanded graphite phase
change material Luo Jian-Feng a,, Yin Hong-Wei a, Li Wen-Yu b,
Xu Zhong-Jie b, Shao Zheng-Zheng
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Thank you
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