Research Article
3D Numerical and Experimental Study on Paraffin Wax Melting in Thermal Storage for the Nozzle-and-Shell, Tube-and-Shell, and Reducer-and-Shell Models
Table 1
The properties of paraffin.
| | Property | Value |
| | Density (kg/m3) | | | Specific heat (J/kgK) | 3100 | | Thermal conductivity of solid (W/mK) | 0.21 | | Thermal conductivity of liquid (W/mK) | 0.12 | | Viscosity (Ns/m2) | | | Latent heat (J/kg) | 166000 | | Solidus temperature (K) | 321.7 | | Liquidus temperature (K) | 328.6 |
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