[HTML][HTML] Research advancement and potential prospects of thermal energy storage in concentrated solar power application

M Mubarrat, MM Mashfy, T Farhan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers and power plant engineers have all taken an interest in Concentrating Solar
Power (CSP) of its capacity to generate large amounts of energy while overcoming the …

A review on container geometry and orientations of phase change materials for solar thermal systems

BMS Punniakodi, R Senthil - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCM) are employed to store thermal energy in solar collectors,
heat pumps, heat recovery, hot and cold storage. PCMs are encapsulated primarily in shell …

Thermal enhancement techniques for a lobed-double pipe PCM thermal storage system

A NematpourKeshteli, M Iasiello, G Langella… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the simultaneous harvesting and storing of solar thermal energy using a lobed
double-pipe heat exchanger with Phase Change Materials (RT82), in a solar collector …

Natural convection improvement of PCM melting in partition latent heat energy storage: Numerical study with experimental validation

MS Mahdi, HB Mahood, AN Campbell… - … Communications in Heat …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines an innovative design to enhance the natural convection in a
rectangular latent heat energy storage unit (LHSU). The new design divides the rectangular …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances of selected passive heat transfer intensification methods for phase change material-based latent heat energy storage units: A review

M Rogowski, R Andrzejczyk - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The following article overviews recent studies regarding heat transfer enhancement
methods, explicitly focusing on fins and coils utilization, in phase change material-based …

Review on solar thermal energy storage technologies and their geometrical configurations

C Suresh, RP Saini - International Journal of Energy Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Because of the unstable and intermittent nature of solar energy availability, a thermal energy
storage system is required to integrate with the collectors to store thermal energy and …

Numerical investigation of PCM melting using different tube configurations in a shell and tube latent heat thermal storage unit

MS Mahdi, HB Mahood, AA Alammar… - Thermal Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage plays an essential role in energy systems to reduce the mismatch
between the energy supply and demand. Phase change materials are widely used in …

Heat transfer and thermal performance investigation on a visualized latent heat storage system in pilot-scale: Scalable medium-temperature thermal energy storage …

L Lv, S Huang, H Zhou - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Large-capacity medium-temperature (100–300° C) and high-temperature (> 300°
C) latent heat storage (LHS) systems can enhance the reliability and performance of solar …

The effect of conical shell and converging/diverging tube on the charging performance of shell and tube latent heat thermal energy storage system

AS Ghazani, A Gholamzadeh - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Latent heat storage is a promising method to overcome the problem of the intermittent nature
of renewable sources. However, the main challenge in utilizing phase change materials is …

Experimental and numerical studies of thermal transport in a latent heat storage unit with a plate fin and a flat heat pipe

Z Wang, Y Diao, Y Zhao, C Chen, T Wang, L Liang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat pipes with plate fins, which are a simple and effective technique for heat transfer
enhancement, are extremely important for latent heat storage. However, the effect of fin …