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

International Conference on Materials, Alloys and Experimental Mechanics 2017

材料科学;金属学;机械制造

Krishna, Jogi^1 ; Kishore, P.S.^1 ; Brusly Solomon, A.^2

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

530003, India^1

Centre for Research in Material Science and Thermal Management, School of Mechanical Sciences, Karunya University, Coimbatore

641114, India^2

关键词: Cooling applications;    Cooling modules;    Experimental investigations;    Fan power consumption;    Fan speed;    Nanoenhanced phase change material (NePCM);    Thermal Performance;    Volume percentage;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/225/1/012058/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/225/1/012058

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

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.