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Melting performance enhancement in latent heat storage module using solid extraction electrohydrodynamics (EHD)

Abstract

An experimental investigation to study the effect of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) on the thermal performance of a latent heat thermal storage cell during melting of paraffin wax was performed. The test section was designed to eliminate natural convection and to ensure conduction dominated melting environment to isolate the influence of the electric field. The results showed that by applying a (−8kV) voltage potential across the storage module, …

Authors

Nakhla D; Sadek H; Cotton JS

Journal

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 81, , pp. 695–704

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

February 2015

DOI

10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.10.016

ISSN

0017-9310