Horbaniuc, Bogdan; Popescu, Aristotel; Dumitraşcu, Gheorghe - In: Renewable Energy 9 (1996) 1, pp. 605-608
The concept of a solar energy heat pipe latent heat storage system is presented. In order to assure large charging and discharging rates, finned heat pipes are used to transfer heat to and from the phase-change material (paraffin in this case). The evolution of the solid - liquid interface is...