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EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE MELTING PROCESS IN A PCM/ALUMINUM FOAM COMPOSITE MATERIAL IN HYPERGRAVITY CONDITIONS
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Phase Change Materials PCMs (e.g. paraffin waxes, fused silica salts or polyethylene glycol) can be successfully used for the thermal management and the heat storage for ground and space applications. Open cell metal foams embedded in the PCM material increase the overall thermal conductivity and accelerate the melting process. The literature shows that the pore size and the relative density strongly affect the melting process performances. The most of works show as the high thermal conductivity of the open cell metal foam dominates the melting process. Natural convection effect usually is attenuated but it can be relevant if occurs. An experimental activity has been designed and carried out under the framework of the European Space Agency student programme Spin Your Thesis 2017 (SYT-2017) to analyze the effect of different hyper gravity levels and configurations on the melting performance of a composite aluminum foam (10 PPI)/paraffin wax material at two different heat fluxes. The gravity level ranges from 5g up to 20g by means of the Large Diameter Centrifuge. The effect of gravity on the melting process has been investigated by measuring the melting time and the dynamic evolution of the melted area. The experiments show as the hyper gravity condition accelerates the melting process: it is 12% faster ranging from 5g to 10 g. The IR visualization allowed the definition of the melting front dynamic evolution. A natural convection regime is observed in all the experiments. The natural convection incipience accelerates the melting process. A critical analysis of the scaling criterion in the literature has been qualitatively done and a modified Rayleigh number is proposed to
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