Heating and domestic hot water (DHW) systems account for 75% of energy consumption in
residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. Furthermore, thermal energy storage strongly …

Energy storage has become an important part in renewable energy technology systems.
Solar thermal systems, unlike photovoltaic systems with striving efficiencies, are industrially …

Due to the low thermal conductivity of the available phase change materials (PCM), fins are
usually incorporated into latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems. Although …

Solar energy is a clean, abundant and easily accessible form of renewable energy. Its
intermittent and dynamic nature makes thermal energy storage (TES) systems highly …

This paper reviews various kinds of heat storage materials, their composites and
applications investigated over the last two decades. It was found that sensible heat storage …

The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the melting characteristics of a PCM
cylindrical thermal storage system using experimental and numerical approaches. Three …

Due to the inherent intermittency of renewable energy sources such as solar, latent heat
thermal energy storage in phase change materials (PCMs) has received considerable …

A novel triplex-tube heat exchanger (TTHX) is proposed to improve the simultaneous
storage and recovery processes via an effective dual-PCM configuration. The proposed …

The application of phase-change materials (PCMs) has received significant interest for use
in thermal energy storage (TES) systems that can adjust the mismatch between the energy …

This paper details a numerical study of solid-liquid phase change heat transfer in a
rectangular enclosure with the aim of optimizing the number, dimension, and positioning of …