Electrical wires and cables have been identified as a potential source of fire in residential
buildings, nuclear power plants, aircraft, and spacecraft. This work reviews the recent …

Overwhelming research interest in developing green and renewable energy systems has
fostered the innovation of novel latent heat storage systems. Transport phenomena during …

A novel shape-stabilized phase change material (PCM) was developed by impregnation of
hydrated salts into expanded graphite (EG) and further coated with paraffin wax. It was …

Sodium acetate trihydrate (SAT) composites containing expanded graphite (EG) and
carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) were prepared using different concentrations of EG and …

Expanded graphites (EGs) with various interlayer distances were combined with molten
erythritol and then erythritol/EG composites as phase change materials (PCMs) and the …

Dripping of polymer insulations in wire fire has a potential risk of igniting nearby objects and
expanding the size of fire, but has not been well studied so far. In this experimental study …

Owing to its high heat storage capacity and fast heat transfer rate, packed bed latent heat
storage (LHS) is considered as a promising method to store thermal energy. In a packed …

In electrical wires with insulations that burn and melt, the dripping of molten insulation can
change the wire fire behavior, ignite nearby objects, and enhance the fire spread. Dripping …

In the present study, a consistent and conservative Phase-Field model is developed to study
thermo-gas-liquid-solid flows with liquid-solid phase change. The proposed model is …

Thermal energy harvesting, storage, conversion and utilization technologies based on
phase change materials (PCMs) have received widely attention. The intelligent integration of …