Abstract
Ice slurry has the many advantages as phase change material, since the latent heat of fusion of the ice particles can be used and the heat exchange area is very wide. In this study, the heat transfer characteristics of ice slurry are investigated experimentally to examine the effect of some parameters, such as the initial concentration of the aqueous solution and the heating condition. As the results, it was found that the Nusselt number can be expressed as the function of apparent Reynolds number, IPF and the ratio of the average diameter of the ice particles to the diameter of the test tube.
