Experimental Study of Thermal Energy Storage Characteristics using Heat Pipe with Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Materials

The paper presents experimental investigations to evaluate thermal performance of heat pipe using Nano Enhanced Phase Change Material (NEPCM) as an energy storage material (ESM) for electronic cooling applications. Water, Tricosane and nano enhanced Tricosane are used as energy storage materials, op...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 225; no. 1; pp. 12058 - 12065
Main Authors Krishna, Jogi, Kishore, P. S., Brusly Solomon, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.08.2017
Subjects
Aluminum oxide
Cooling
Cooling rate
Energy storage
Evaporators
Heat pipes
Heating
Modules
Nanoparticles
Phase change materials
Power consumption
Thermal energy
Utilities
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Summary:The paper presents experimental investigations to evaluate thermal performance of heat pipe using Nano Enhanced Phase Change Material (NEPCM) as an energy storage material (ESM) for electronic cooling applications. Water, Tricosane and nano enhanced Tricosane are used as energy storage materials, operating at different heating powers (13W, 18W and 23W) and fan speeds (3.4V and 5V) in the PCM cooling module. Three different volume percentages (0.5%, 1% and 2%) of Nano particles (Al2O3) are mixed with Tricosane which is the primary PCM. This experiment is conducted to study the temperature distributions of evaporator, condenser and PCM during the heating as well as cooling. The cooling module with heat pipe and nano enhanced Tricosane as energy storage material found to save higher fan power consumption compared to the cooling module that utilities only a heat pipe.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/225/1/012058