Hybrid solar water heating/nocturnal radiation cooling system I: A review of the progress, prospects and challenges

GN Nwaji, CA Okoronkwo, NV Ogueke… - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
The need for substantial savings in building energy demand is necessitating global
households' switch to solar water heating and nocturnal water cooling for possible …

PCM addition inside solar water heaters: Numerical comparative approach

T Bouhal, T El Rhafiki, T Kousksou, A Jamil… - Journal of Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to highlight the design of solar storage tank integrating PCM
modules for solar hot water production. The objective is to simulate working cycle of solar …

Performance evaluation of a solar thermal energy storage system using nanoparticle-enhanced phase change material

R Elbahjaoui, H El Qarnia - international journal of hydrogen energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical investigation on the thermal performance of a solar latent
heat storage unit composed of rectangular slabs combined with a flat-plate solar collector …

Thermal performance analysis of combined solar collector with triple concentric-tube latent heat storage systems

R Elbahjaoui, H El Qarnia, A Naimi - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an analysis of the thermal performance of triple concentric-tube latent heat
storage systems filled with a commercial phase change material (PCM: RT50) is presented …

The calculation of solar energy used by hot water systems in permafrost region: An experimental case study for Yakutia

NA Tsvetkov, UO Krivoshein, AV Tolstykh… - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a mathematical model for the collection and efficient use of solar energy
in hot water systems at permafrost regions. A case study was presented for northern …

Thermal performance of a solar latent heat storage unit using rectangular slabs of phase change material for domestic water heating purposes

R Elbahjaoui, H El Qarnia - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, the thermal performance of a rectangular latent heat storage unit (LHSU)
coupled with a flat-plate solar collector was investigated numerically. The storage unit …

Numerical modelling and experimental studies of thermal behaviour of building integrated thermal energy storage unit in a form of a ceiling panel

M Jaworski, P Łapka, P Furmański - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective The paper presents a new concept of building integrated thermal energy storage
unit and novel mathematical and numerical models of its operation. This building element is …

Thermal performance of constrained melting of PCM inside an elliptical capsule of two orientations

NS Dhaidan - Iranian Journal of Science and Technology …, 2021 - Springer
The phase change material is deemed a hopeful method of saving a large quantity of
thermal energy latently at an approximately low-temperature swing. A computational …

Solar thermal energy storage using paraffins as phase change materials for air conditioning in the built environment

W Lin, Z Ma, H Ren, J Liu, K Li - Paraffin Overv, 2020 - books.google.com
Thermal energy storage (TES) using phase change materials (PCMs) has received
increasing attention since the last decades, due to its great potential for energy savings and …

Optimized design and operation of heat-pipe photovoltaic thermal system with phase change material for thermal storage

A Sweidan, N Ghaddar, K Ghali - Journal of Renewable and …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This work aims to optimize the design and operation of a heat pipe photovoltaic-thermal (HP-
PV/T) panel integrated with a phase change material (PCM) thermal storage water tank to …