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) …

A review and prospective of fin design to improve heat transfer performance of latent thermal energy storage

S Zhang, S Mancin, L Pu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Latent Thermal Energy Storage (TES) has been widely recognized in the academic
community and regarded as one of the most promising technologies for heat storage. As one …

Investigation and optimization of solidification performance of a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy storage system by rotational mechanism

X Huang, F Li, T Xiao, J Guo, F Wang, X Gao, X Yang… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the rotation mechanism is applied to a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy
storage system for the first time. Numerical simulation is used to study the effect of rotation …

Design of non-uniformly distributed annular fins for a shell-and-tube thermal energy storage unit

X Yang, J Guo, B Yang, H Cheng, P Wei, YL He - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The shell and tube latent heat thermal energy storage systems are widely recognized as one
of the most effective ways to store and utilize solar energy due to their high energy density …

Review on phase change materials for cold thermal energy storage applications

B Nie, A Palacios, B Zou, J Liu, T Zhang, Y Li - Renewable and sustainable …, 2020 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) based thermal energy storage (TES) has proved to have
great potential in various energy-related applications. The high energy storage density …

Approaches for expedition of discharging of PCM involving nanoparticles and radial fins

T Wang, A Almarashi, YA Al-Turki… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this research, sinusoidal tank including inner circular cylinder was considered and to
expedite the solidification, radial fins were installed over the inner cold cylinder. To improve …

A state-of-the-art review of the application of phase change materials (PCM) in Mobilized-Thermal Energy Storage (M-TES) for recovering low-temperature industrial …

K Du, J Calautit, P Eames, Y Wu - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Mobilized-Thermal Energy Storage (M-TES) systems, are an attractive alternative
solution to supply heat to distributed heat users by recovering and transporting the low …

Improving the energy discharging performance of a latent heat storage (LHS) unit using fractal-tree-shaped fins

C Zhang, J Li, Y Chen - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The fractal tree-shaped structure has been demonstrated as a promising optimization
method to maximize the point-area heat flow access. Aiming to enhance the energy …

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 …

Performance investigation of a biomimetic latent heat thermal energy storage device for waste heat recovery in data centers

Y Huang, Z Deng, Y Chen, C Zhang - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving the power usage effectiveness of data centers has become a significant challenge
for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. To address this, here we propose a single-phase …