Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply
challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to …

Building construction deserves many attentions due to its huge energy consumption, while
Phase Change Materials (PCMs) provide positive solutions for improving energy efficiency …

This paper presents a general review of significant recent studies that utilize phase change
materials (PCMs) for thermal management purposes of electronics and energy storage. It …

Building envelope is a key element in providing adequate energy and thermal comfort
performance to buildings. In this regard, improvement solutions are implemented in recent …

The continuous growth of building energy consumption and carbon emissions has
aggravated the balance between environment and energy, in which building heating and …

This paper is an updated, but totally new, version of “A review on phase change materials
(PCMs) integrated in building walls”, an article published in 2011 in Renewable and …

Maintaining healthy and comfortable indoors through passive ways is challenging due to the
changing and extreme climatic conditions. The aim of this work is to review the thermal …

Energy conservation management using latent heat storage (LHS) technique is nowadays
employed as a solution to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions …

This paper explicitly deals with the role of thermal energy storage (TES) with respect to
energy performance measures in buildings. Buildings constitute about 50% of the total …

Phase change materials (PCMs) incorporated into building envelopes store large amount of
latent heat within a narrow temperature range, regulating heat flow between indoor and …