A STUDY ON THE HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISM OF A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL ALONG THE THREE DIMENSIONAL AXIS OF A SOLAR WAX MELTING CHAMBER

Abstract

A heat transfer characteristic of paraffin wax by natural
convection was studied experimentally. A square wax melting
chamber was taken to study the charging/melting characteristics
of the PCM. A square wooden block was used to fix the
monocouples, which was used to measure the temperature of
the pcm radially and axially. DSc was taken for the Paraffin
wax used in the study and its thermophysicsal characteristics
were studied. Natural convection increases the thermal
conductivity of the PCM with time.