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ArticleScientific reports2025

Development of a novel solar system incorporating a heat pipe within a porous enclosure for simulating paraffin melting.

M Sheikholeslami, M J Sarmadi, Ladan Momayez, H R Ashorynejad

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M SheikholeslamiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. mohsen.sheikholeslami@nit.ac.ir.
M J SarmadiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. javadsarmadi@stu.nit.ac.ir.
Ladan MomayezDepartment of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
H R AshorynejadDepartment of Industrial, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Qazvin, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In current work, a new design of a heat pipe solar collector coupled with a parabolic reflector is numerically analyzed to boost the overall efficiency. The design incorporates several advanced thermal management strategies aimed at improving both heat transfer and energy storage capabilities. The region surrounding the heat pipe inside the evacuated tube is filled with paraffin (RT31), which serves as a phase change material (PCM) and is reinforced with MWCNT nanoparticles to boost its thermal conductivity and accelerate the melting process. In the condenser section, water mixed with hybrid nanoparticles (Ag-MoS

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ANSYS FLUENT simulationEvacuated tube collectorHeat pipe solar collectorHybrid nanofluidParabolic reflectorPCMPorous foamUser-defined functions (UDFs)

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PMID41365949
PMCPMC12689830

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