Solar water heaters (SWHs) are primarily used to generate hot water to meet daily needs in
domestic and industrial applications. Due to its technical and economic practicality, solar …

The sudden rise in the gas and oil price due to political issues and the goal demand to
reduce CO 2 emissions to nearly zero by 2050 urges scientists to provide renewable and …

More and more studies are today focusing on solar systems owing to the increasing
awareness about global warming caused by conventional energy technologies and techno …

Phase change materials (PCMs) can be applied to several different solar energy systems for
the extended heat energy storage which is quite useful as the solar energy is intermittent in …

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 …

This paper presents a computational analysis of the flow and thermal behaviors of a nano-
enhanced Phase Change Material (PCM) exposed to a magnetic field. One of the …

Fatty acids as phase change materials have attracted much attention for their various
applications in building energy efficiency, solar heating systems and air-conditioning …

This paper presents a novel method of integrating phase change materials (PCMs) within
the evacuated solar tube collectors for solar water heaters (SWHs). In this method, the heat …

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 …

Thermal energy storage plays a vital role to solve the problems related to the intermittent
nature of solar energy. Phase change materials (PCMs) have shown promising applications …