Research Article
Indoor Solar Thermal Energy Saving Time with Phase Change Material in a Horizontal Shell and Finned-Tube Heat Exchanger
Table 1
Thermophysical properties of the PCM and finned-tube.
| Properties | Tube material |
Phase change material | Solid | Liquid |
| (kg/m3) | 8800 | 0.790 | 0.916 | (j/kg·K) | 420 | n.a | n.a | (W/m·K) | 52 | 0.167 | 0.346 | (m2/s) | 1.4 × 10−5 | n.a | (kj/kg) | n.a | 160 | (°C) | n.a | 53 | 57 |
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