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From: Fred Betz <fbetz@aeieng.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:41:37 -0600
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Has anyone used a storage tank to model phase change materials in a storage application? Is there another component to do this?

I know you can change the specific heat of the contents of the storage tank, but how do you add the heat of fusion? I would rather not attempt to create some made up specific heat to account for that as the temperature profile would be wrong. 

Please advise,

Fred


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