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    Characterization of metals and salts-based thermal energy storage materials using energy balance method
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc. P.O.Box 18667 Newark NJ 07191-8667, 2019) Agarwala, S.; Prabhu, N.K.
    Thermal energy storage technologies minimize the imbalance between energy production and demand. In this context, latent heat storage materials are of great importance as they have a higher density of energy storage as compared with the sensible heat storage materials. The present study involves the characterization of energy storage materials using an energy balance cooling curve analysis method. The method estimates the convective heat transfer coefficient in the solidification range to characterize the phase change materials for applications in energy storage. The method is more beneficial than the Computer Aided Cooling Curve analysis methods as it eliminates baseline calculations and the associated fitting errors. Metals (Sn) and salts (KNO3 and NaNO 3) were used in the present work. Phase change characteristics like the rate of cooling, liquidus and solidus temperatures, time for solidification, and enthalpy of phase change were estimated for both metals and salts. It was observed that the energy balance cooling curve analysis method worked very well for metals but not well suited for low conductivity salts. Salts could not be characterized since the thermal gradient existing within the salt sample was not considered in this method. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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    An experimental approach based on inverse heat conduction analysis for thermal characterization of phase change materials
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Agarwala, S.; Prabhu, K.N.
    A new method based on solution to inverse heat conduction problem for the assessment of solidification parameters of PCM salts has been proposed. The method estimates the mold -salt interfacial heat flux and it is used to calculate the latent heat of salt PCMs using calorimetry based energy balance equations. This method is more accurate compared to Computer Aided Cooling Curve Analysis (CACCA) techniques as it eliminates the drawbacks involved with base line fitting calculations and errors introduced due to the improper selection of solidification points. Pure salt PCMs such as KNO3 and solar salt were used for the validation of this technique. Both air and furnace cooling were adopted to demonstrate the effect of cooling rate on solidification characteristics. The wettability of salt samples on mild steel surface was analyzed to account for the difference in the thermal behavior of salts. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.