Sinergi
Vol 24, No 1 (2020)

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARAFFIN MELTING PROCESS IN A SQUARE CAVITY WITH INCREASE GRADUALLY OF HOT WALL TEMPERATURE

Agus Dwi Korawan (Mechanical Engineering, Ronggolawe College of Technology Cepu)

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Publish Date
14 Jan 2020

Abstract

Paraffin as a heat storage material has many advantages but also has drawbacks, namely low thermal conductivity so that the melting time becomes long. Efforts have been made to accelerate the melting time, including by increasing a surface area of the hot wall, or also by changing the geometry. In this study was carried out by changing the temperature of the hot wall from uniform to increase gradually, uniform hot wall temperature was 330 K, increased gradually hot wall temperature was 324 K, 327 K, 330 K, 333 K, dan 336 K. Paraffin used has specifications according to reference. They have performed numerically used ANSYS software. They are using three models, namely modelA, model-B, and model-C. The study aimed to obtain liquid-solid interface contours, changes in temperature at measurement points, and changes in the liquid fraction. The results of model validation show similarities to previous studies. The results show that the melting time in the model-A is the fastest, followed by model-B and model-C.

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Sinergi
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Abbrev

sinergi

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Universitas Mercu Buana

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Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering Engineering Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

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SINERGI is a peer-reviewed international journal published three times a year in February, June, and October. The journal is published by Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Mercu Buana. Each publication contains articles comprising high quality theoretical and empirical original research papers, ...