A review on phase change material (PCM) for sustainable passive cooling in building envelopes

H Akeiber, P Nejat, MZA Majid, MA Wahid… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The most significant threat that mankind faces in the 21th century is global warming.
Buildings, which account for 40% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas …

A review for phase change materials (PCMs) in solar absorption refrigeration systems

MMA Khan, R Saidur, FA Al-Sulaiman - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy storage has become an important part in renewable energy technology systems.
Solar thermal systems, unlike photovoltaic systems with striving efficiencies, are industrially …

Thermal performance enhancement of a flat plate solar collector using hybrid nanofluid

OA Hussein, K Habib, AS Muhsan, R Saidur, OA Alawi… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Covalent Functionalized-Multi wall carbon nanotubes (CF-MWCNTs) and Covalent
Functionalized-graphene nanoplatelets (CF-GNPs) with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) …

CFD analysis of melting process in a shell-and-tube latent heat storage for concentrated solar power plants

F Fornarelli, SM Camporeale, B Fortunato, M Torresi… - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A latent heat storage system for concentrated solar plants (CSP) is numerically examined by
means of CFD simulations. This study aims at identifying the convective flows produced …

Integrated and separate collector storage type low-temperature solar water heating systems with latent heat storage: a review

A Sharma, R Chauhan - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The fluctuating and discontinuous availability problem of solar energy can be significantly
reduced by utilizing thermal storage, especially latent heat storage (LHS). The most …

Analysis of utilizing Graphene nanoplatelets to enhance thermal performance of flat plate solar collectors

A Ahmadi, DD Ganji, F Jafarkazemi - Energy conversion and management, 2016 - Elsevier
It is the aim of the present paper to investigate the effect of Graphene nanofluid on thermal
performance of flat plate solar collectors. Therefore, the influence of Graphene …

Light-heat conversion and thermal conductivity enhancement of PEG/SiO2 composite PCM by in situ Ti4O7 do**

B Tang, H Wei, D Zhao, S Zhang - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2017 - Elsevier
To improve the energy utilization efficiency of solar energy, Ti 4 O 7/PEG/SiO 2 form-stable
phase change material (PCM) with characters of light-heat conversion and thermal …

Computational intelligence in wave energy: Comprehensive review and case study

L Cuadra, S Salcedo-Sanz, JC Nieto-Borge… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind-generated wave energy is a renewable energy source that exhibits a huge potential
for sustainable growth. The design and deployment of wave energy converters at a given …

Thermal performance of a compact design heat pipe solar collector with latent heat storage in charging/discharging modes

MS Naghavi, KS Ong, IA Badruddin, M Mehrali… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reports an experimental investigation on a design of solar water heater system
(SWH) employing evacuated tube heat pipe solar collectors (HPSCs) and a latent heat …

4E analysis of thermal recovery potential of industrial wastewater in heat pumps: An invisible energy resource from the iranian casting industry sector

S Maddah, M Deymi-Dashtebayaz… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heat pumps are technologies that use renewable energy and are also environment-friendly
and therefore used in different countries. Due to the thermal potential of industrial …