TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of diameter size of aluminum fiber materials on heat storage and release enhancement properties of latent heat storage Paraffin with aluminum fiber materials
AU - Haruki, Naoto
AU - Horibe, Akihiko
AU - Sano, Yoshihiko
AU - Hachiya, Kohei
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Recent interest in the latent heat energy storage system may be attributed both to reducing energy consumption and to correcting the gap between on-peak and off-peak electrical power demand. Paraffin is suitable material from the viewpoint of high latent heat and various melting points. Because of the low thermal conductivity of paraffin, we have already suggested that the effective thermal conductivity of paraffin was enhanced by mixing metal fiber materials to paraffin. In our previous paper, the heat release characteristic of paraffin with metal fiber materials was improved by enhanced effective thermal conductivity under the constant lower cooling temperature condition. But the mixed metal fiber materials prevented the natural convection flow of liquid paraffin on the heat storage process under the constant lower heating temperature condition. In this paper, the influence of a metal fiber diameter on the heat storage and release process of paraffin with metal fiber materials has been investigated. As a result, it was found that the strength of natural convection of liquid paraffin depends on the metal fiber diameter and the volumetric fiber fraction.
AB - Recent interest in the latent heat energy storage system may be attributed both to reducing energy consumption and to correcting the gap between on-peak and off-peak electrical power demand. Paraffin is suitable material from the viewpoint of high latent heat and various melting points. Because of the low thermal conductivity of paraffin, we have already suggested that the effective thermal conductivity of paraffin was enhanced by mixing metal fiber materials to paraffin. In our previous paper, the heat release characteristic of paraffin with metal fiber materials was improved by enhanced effective thermal conductivity under the constant lower cooling temperature condition. But the mixed metal fiber materials prevented the natural convection flow of liquid paraffin on the heat storage process under the constant lower heating temperature condition. In this paper, the influence of a metal fiber diameter on the heat storage and release process of paraffin with metal fiber materials has been investigated. As a result, it was found that the strength of natural convection of liquid paraffin depends on the metal fiber diameter and the volumetric fiber fraction.
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U2 - 10.18462/iir.icr.2015.0378
DO - 10.18462/iir.icr.2015.0378
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016730587
T3 - Refrigeration Science and Technology
SP - 1356
EP - 1363
BT - 24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, ICR 2015
PB - International Institute of Refrigeration
T2 - 24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, ICR 2015
Y2 - 16 August 2015 through 22 August 2015
ER -