Models for the heat transfers during the transformations inside an emulsion—I. Crystallizations of the undercooled droplets

Freezing of water droplets on solid surfaces: An experimental and numerical study

“…Nevertheless, we found that T 0,r was highly unrepeatable for other experiments that are not reported in this paper. Also, it is difficult to predict the pre-recalescence temperature based on the nucleation theories [30]. Therefore, analysis of T 0,r is out of the scope of the present work.…”

Metastable and Stable Morphologies during Crystallization of Alkanes in Miniemulsion Droplets

“…The fact that the melting point of the nanodroplets occurs roughly at the same point as in the bulk system, in contrast to the crystallization, is expected, since the release of energy of a droplet during the crystallization due to the undercooling is practically instantaneous because it occurs far from thermodynamic equilibrium. In the case of melting, the droplets absorb energy at a fixed melting point and the kinetics depend on the exchanges with the surrounding medium . However, it will be shown for alkanes with different chain length that the melting point can also be shifted significantly.…”

Thermal performance of microencapsulated phase change material slurry in turbulent flow under constant heat flux

“…Bellas et al [4] used ice slurries to increase the thermal capacity of an existing system. Choi [3] and others [5][6][7][8][9][10] have used paraffins because their melting points are at least few degrees greater than the carrier fluid (water). Full implementation of plain PCM in secondary fluid applications has been limited due to the tendency of PCM to form clumps, which exhibit lower thermal conductivity during the solidification process.…”