Research Article

Increased Melting Heat Transfer in the Latent Heat Energy Storage from the Tube-and-Shell Model to the Combine-and-Shell Model

Table 1

The properties of paraffin.

Property Value

Densitykg/m3
Specific heat3100J/kgK
Solidus thermal conductivity0.21W/mK
Liquidus thermal conductivity0.12W/mK
ViscosityNs/m2
Latent heat166000J/kg
Solidus temperature322.7K
Liquidus temperature327.6K

Reference [18]. Measured.