High latent heat phase change materials (PCMs) with low melting temperature for thermal management and storage of electronic devices and power batteries: Critical …

Y Liu, R Zheng, J Li - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
To protect electronic devices and batteries from sharp temperature rise and thermal
runaway, active/passive/hybrid thermal management using phase change materials (PCMs) …

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 …

Nanotechnology-integrated phase change material and nanofluids for solar applications as a potential approach for clean energy strategies: Progress, challenges …

Z Said, MA Sohail, AK Pandey, P Sharma… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrating nanotechnology into phase change materials (PCMs) has emerged as a novel
approach to improving PCM thermal properties and performance in various thermal energy …

Thermal energy storage in district heating and cooling systems: A review

E Guelpa, V Verda - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal storage facilities ensure a heat reservoir for optimally tackling dynamic
characteristics of district heating systems: heat and electricity demand evolution, changes of …

Thermal energy storage for low and medium temperature applications using phase change materials–a review

JP Da Cunha, P Eames - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of phase change materials (PCMs) with phase transition
temperatures between 0 and 250° C is presented. From that review, organic compounds …

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 …

Towards future infrastructures for sustainable multi-energy systems: A review

E Guelpa, A Bischi, V Verda, M Chertkov, H Lund - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Integration of different energy infrastructures (heat, electricity and gas vectors) offers great
potential for better managing energy sources, reducing consumption and waste as well as …

Maximization of performance of a PCM latent heat storage system with innovative fins

A Sciacovelli, F Gagliardi, V Verda - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) based on phase change material (PCMs) is an
interesting solution to be used for mitigating the mismatch between energy demand and …

Design of effective fins for fast PCM melting and solidification in shell-and-tube latent heat thermal energy storage through topology optimization

A Pizzolato, A Sharma, K Maute, A Sciacovelli, V Verda - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a unique solution to the problem of heat transfer intensification in shell-
and-tube latent heat thermal energy storage units by means of high conducting fins. We …

A state of art review on the district heating systems

AR Mazhar, S Liu, A Shukla - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
District heating (DH) has been widely acknowledged as the future for urban heating, as
concerns of sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions are pushing, to revamp the …