A critical review on phase change materials (PCM) for sustainable and energy efficient building: Design, characteristic, performance and application

X Wang, W Li, Z Luo, K Wang, SP Shah - Energy and buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Building construction deserves many attentions due to its huge energy consumption, while
Phase Change Materials (PCMs) provide positive solutions for improving energy efficiency …

Phase change material (PCM) candidates for latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) in concentrated solar power (CSP) based thermal applications-A review

DS Jayathunga, HP Karunathilake, M Narayana… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Solar energy offers over 2,945,926 TWh/year of global Concentrating Solar Power
(CSP) potential, that can be used to substitute fossil fuels in power generation and mitigate …

Numerical analysis of solar energy storage within a double pipe utilizing nanoparticles for expedition of melting

M Sheikholeslami - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022 - Elsevier
The current work proposes the combination of thermal storage and solar concentrating
systems. To improve the low conduction mode of pure paraffin, not only the new style of fins …

Investigation and optimization of solidification performance of a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy storage system by rotational mechanism

X Huang, F Li, T Xiao, J Guo, F Wang, X Gao, X Yang… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the rotation mechanism is applied to a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy
storage system for the first time. Numerical simulation is used to study the effect of rotation …

Enhancing PCMs thermal conductivity: A comparison among porous metal foams, nanoparticles and finned surfaces in triplex tube heat exchangers

A NematpourKeshteli, M Iasiello, G Langella… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing latent heat thermal energy storage system thermal conductivity is of primary
importance to take advantage of their capability of storing large amount of thermal energy …

Melting assessment on the angled fin design for a novel latent heat thermal energy storage tube

J Guo, Z Liu, B Yang, X Yang, J Yan - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Latent heat thermal energy storage was widely used to solve the problem of the
intermittency in time and space for solar energy systems. To improve the energy storage …

A review and prospective of fin design to improve heat transfer performance of latent thermal energy storage

S Zhang, S Mancin, L Pu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Latent Thermal Energy Storage (TES) has been widely recognized in the academic
community and regarded as one of the most promising technologies for heat storage. As one …

Potential of phase change materials and their effective use in solar thermal applications: A critical review

V Goel, A Saxena, M Kumar, A Thakur… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential of the thermal energy storage materials especially phase change materials (PCM)
is great support to the thermal systems for their performance enhancement especially for …

Numerical investigation of microchannel heat sinks with different inlets and outlets based on topology optimization

Y Xia, L Chen, J Luo, W Tao - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Topology optimization can generate better structures of microchannel with improved cooling
performance. In this paper, microchannel heat sinks with five different inlet and outlet …

Heat transfer enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage in solar heating system: A state-of-the-art review

W Liu, Y Bie, T Xu, A Cichon, G Królczyk, Z Li - Journal of Energy Storage, 2022 - Elsevier
Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHETS) has been widely used in solar thermal
utilization and waste heat recovery on account of advantages of high-energy storage density …