Enhancement Thermal Conductivity of PCM in Thermal Energy storage

Abstract

Abstract An experimental investigation of different thermal energy storage materials in the solar collector is studied in this paper. Both, sensible energy storage materials and latent heat storage materials (PCMs) are used to enhance the storage system of thermal energy. The size of the tested solar collector 2 m*0.8m*0.15 collector length, width, height. Experimental results obtained from the proposed model indicate that the solar collector model, having a composite of paraffin wax with 5% aluminum powder can continuous operation, and the maximum air temperature difference (ΔT) between air enter to collector and exit from the collector if the ambient of 24.7 °C, the effect on the efficiency of the collector