Extending the heat transfer area is a simple technique to improve the thermal performance
of phase change materials with low thermal conductivity. However, as the governing …

Many efforts are being made to mitigate the main disadvantage of most phase change
materials–their low thermal conductivities–in order to deliver latent heat energy storage …

Designing latent heat thermal energy storage systems is a cumbersome task and the
estimation of the performance of such a storage system normally involves experiments and …

The present study demonstrates and visualizes the two modes of constrained melting and
close-contact melting in a rectangular cavity enhanced with fins. Three configurations of fin …

The large energy storage densities provided by phase change materials during their phase
change, mostly isothermal, can be exploited to design and engineer energy-based systems …

The objective of this study is to assess the viability of implementing the methodology
proposed in the SFERA-III project for the assessment of key performance indicators (KPIs) of …

Latent thermal energy storages (LTES) offer a high storage density within a narrow
temperature range. Due to the typically low thermal conductivity of the applied phase …

The lack of design rules for the design and selection of phase change material (PCM)-based
thermal energy storage (TES) systems using heat exchangers is a major impediment to the …

Thermal energy storage systems (TESS) are receiving attention because there are constant
power cuts, major changes in electrical rate structures, increased maximum power …

Kurzfassung Durch den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien werden auch vermehrt elektrische
Energiespeicher auf Basis von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien eingesetzt. Für einen …