Potential of phase change materials and their effective use in solar thermal applications: A critical review

V Goel, A Saxena, M Kumar, A Thakur… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential of the thermal energy storage materials especially phase change materials (PCM)
is great support to the thermal systems for their performance enhancement especially for …

Applications of cascaded phase change materials in solar water collector storage tanks: a review

ME Zayed, J Zhao, AH Elsheikh, FA Hammad… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Experimental study of the phase change and energy characteristics inside a cylindrical latent heat energy storage system: Part 1 consecutive charging and …

RE Murray, D Groulx - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Solar domestic hot water (SDHW) systems are a cost effective and efficient way to pre-heat
domestic water for hot water use in buildings. Currently used sensible energy storage …

A comprehensive review of single and cascaded phase change material integrated systems in solar domestic hot water applications

HM Teamah - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
A global effort is directed towards a more sustainable future dominated by renewable and
alternative technology. Thermal energy storage is pivotal in those advancements to even out …

Potential of cascaded phase change materials in enhancing the performance of solar domestic hot water systems

HM Teamah, MF Lightstone, JS Cotton - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The current paper explores a multi-tank thermal storage system for multi-residential solar
domestic hot water applications. The thermal storage system includes phase change …

Experimental study of the phase change and energy characteristics inside a cylindrical latent heat energy storage system: Part 2 simultaneous charging and …

RE Murray, D Groulx - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The time mismatch between energy availability and energy demand with solar domestic hot
water (SDHW) systems is often solved using energy storage. Energy storage systems …

An alternative approach for assessing the benefit of phase change materials in solar domestic hot water systems

HM Teamah, MF Lightstone, JS Cotton - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCM) for thermal energy storage in solar energy systems have
been the subject of a great deal of research in the literature. Despite this, the research …

Research on the application of phase-change heat storage in centralized solar hot water system

Z Zhou, J Liu, C Wang, X Huang, F Gao… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar hot water has attracted growing level of attention due to rapid growth of energy
consumption in buildings. Centralized solar hot water system has been widely used in …

A parametric experimental investigation of the heat transfer in a coil-in-tank latent heat energy storage system

M Kabbara, D Groulx, A Joseph - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
An experimental characterization of a latent heat energy storage system (LHESS) with
dodecanoic acid as the phase change material and a coil-in-tank heat exchanger was …

[HTML][HTML] A numerical simulation of an experimental melting process of a phase-change material without convective flows

M García-Fuente, D González-Peña, C Alonso-Tristán - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Different simplified and low-computational-cost models for phase-
change CFD simulation were compared with experimental data for geometries where …