Recent progress on flat plate solar collectors and photovoltaic systems in the presence of nanofluid: a review

M Sheikholeslami, SA Farshad, Z Ebrahimpour… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The current review presents empirical and numerical analyses of thermal performance
development in flat plate solar collectors (FPSCs). Generally, the productivity of photovoltaic …

Latest developments on TES and CSP technologies–Energy and environmental issues, applications and research trends

O Achkari, A El Fadar - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is promising especially for countries
having an abundance of solar resources in order to secure their energy supply, reduce their …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing melting and solidification performances of a phase change material-based flat plate solar collector equipped with metal foams, nanoparticles, and …

A NematpourKeshteli, M Iasiello, G Langella… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents solutions to improve the thermal performances of paraffin as a Phase
Change Material (PCM) in solar flat-plate collector systems for domestic and industrial solar …

Types, methods, techniques, and applications for microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCM): A review

J Giro-Paloma, M Martínez, LF Cabeza… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCM) can be employed in many fields because of their capacity to
absorb and release energy when it is necessary. Nowadays, the number of studies about …

A review of the composite phase change materials: Fabrication, characterization, mathematical modeling and application to performance enhancement

P Zhang, X Xiao, ZW Ma - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) are frequently and widely used in latent thermal energy
storage (LTES) system and thermal management (TM) system due to their large latent heats …

[HTML][HTML] Phase change materials in solar domestic hot water systems: A review

E Douvi, C Pagkalos, G Dogkas, MK Koukou… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, technologies related to the storage of solar energy, utilizing the latent heat
content of phase change materials for the production of domestic hot water are reviewed …

Review of latent heat thermal energy storage for improved material stability and effective load management

KS Reddy, V Mudgal, TK Mallick - Journal of Energy Storage, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage is important to counter balance demand and supply of energy and
maintain balance in the system and boost the use of intermittent renewable energy source …

Nanoencapsulation of phase change materials (PCMs) and their applications in various fields for energy storage and management

E Alehosseini, SM Jafari - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, the use of phase change materials (PCMs) with remarkable properties for energy
storage and development of engineering systems is an extremely important topic, due to …

Morphological characterization and applications of phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review

X Huang, G Alva, Y Jia, G Fang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Phase change material (PCM), stores and releases heat at a particular required temperature
as it undergoes phase change at that temperature. Because of their large latent heat and …

Performance improvements in solar flat plate collectors by integrating with phase change materials and fins: A CFD modeling

Z Badiei, M Eslami, K Jafarpur - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Performance of solar flat plate collectors can be improved by using phase change materials
for latent thermal energy storage. In this study, a three dimensional transient CFD model is …