Recent advancements in latent heat phase change materials and their applications for thermal energy storage and buildings: A state of the art review

F Hassan, F Jamil, A Hussain, HM Ali… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) have received substantial interest for their ability to store
and release latent heat for energy conservation and thermal control purposes. PCMs are …

Construction and application of biochar-based composite phase change materials

Q Liang, D Pan, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Biomass-synthesized biochar has abundant pore structure, large specific surface area, and
strong adsorption capacity. Phase change materials (PCMs) have obvious advantages in …

Biomass-derived porous carbons support in phase change materials for building energy efficiency: a review

T Jiang, Y Zhang, S Olayiwola, CK Lau, M Fan… - Materials Today …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Phase change materials have been used in buildings as effective latent energy storage
elements because of their remarkable capability of storing thermal energy and thus have …

Development of a novel form-stable phase change material based on alkali activated date seed biochar to harvest solar thermal energy

D Gowthami, RK Sharma, VV Tyagi, PKS Rathore… - Journal of Energy …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The current experimental investigation intends to develop leak-resistant form-stable phase
change materials (FSPCM) to promote solar energy storage performance implementing …

Activated carbon/expanded graphite hybrid structure for development of nonadecane based composite PCM with excellent shape stability, enhanced thermal …

G Hekimoğlu, A Sarı, O Gencel, VV Tyagi… - Thermal Science and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Activated carbon (AC) has been promoted as one of the most effective carrier materials for
adsorbing large amounts of PCMs due to its high surface area and porous structure …

Emerging surface strategies for porous materials-based phase change composites

H Li, C Hu, Y He, Z Sun, Z Yin, D Tang - Matter, 2022‏ - cell.com
Porous materials have been widely used to encapsulate phase change materials (PCMs)
and enhance their thermal performances. However, the original porous materials possess …

Machine learning exploration of the direct and indirect roles of Fe impregnation on Cr (VI) removal by engineered biochar

X Zhu, Z Xu, S You, M Komárek, DS Alessi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Data mining and knowledge discovery by machine learning (ML) have recently come into
application in environmental remediation, especially the exploration for the multifactorial …

Effect of structural characteristics and surface functional groups of biochar on thermal properties of different organic phase change materials: dominant encapsulation …

L Lv, J Wang, M Ji, Y Zhang, S Huang, K Cen, H Zhou - Renewable Energy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In this article, waste phoenix leaf biochar was introduced into three most used organic phase
change materials (PCMs) to prepare shape-stable composite PCMs by the vacuum …

Preparation and application of three-dimensional filler network towards organic phase change materials with high performance and multi-functions

F Xue, X Qi, T Huang, C Tang, N Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Organic phase change materials (OPCMs) are a kind of energy storage materials and
receive lots of attention for their outstanding strengths, such as high phase change enthalpy …

Effects of biochar pyrolysis temperature on thermal properties of polyethylene glycol/biochar composites as shape-stable biocomposite phase change materials

S Liu, S Peng, B Zhang, B Xue, Z Yang, S Wang… - RSC advances, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The characteristics of biochar are of great significance to its application in the field of phase
change energy storage. The objective of this research was to explore the effects of pyrolysis …