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 …

PCM, nano/microencapsulation and slurries: A review of fundamentals, categories, fabrication, numerical models and applications

K Ghasemi, S Tasnim, S Mahmud - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sustainable energy is among the ever-increasing concerns in modern society. In this regard,
thermal energy storage (TES) working based on latent heat has shown great potential by …

Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications

MF Junaid, Z ur Rehman, M Čekon, J Čurpek… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reutilization of thermal energy according to building demands constitutes an important step
in a low carbon/green campaign. Phase change materials (PCMs) can address these …

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 …

Thermophysical characterization of paraffin-based PCMs for low temperature thermal energy storage applications for buildings

N Soares, T Matias, L Durães, PN Simões, JJ Costa - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Trustworthy information about the thermophysical properties of phase-change-materials
(PCMs) is vital for designing low temperature thermal energy storage systems for buildings …

Phase change materials: Agents towards energy performance improvement in inclined, vertical, and horizontal walls of residential buildings

S Aghakhani, A Ghaffarkhah, M Arjmand… - Journal of building …, 2022 - Elsevier
The numerical research of a wall (wall or ceiling) in the presence of phase change materials
is undertaken in this work due to the relevance of energy consumption in buildings. One side …

Energy-saving of building envelope using passive PCM technique: A case study of Kuwait City climate conditions

AAAA Al-Rashed, AA Alnaqi, J Alsarraf - Sustainable Energy Technologies …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the Kuwaiti climate region, the residential sector accounts for 64% of electricity
consumption. Due to the hot climate for this region, the share of cooling power usage to …

Advances in standalone and hybrid earth-air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems for buildings: A review

N Soares, N Rosa, H Monteiro, JJ Costa - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides an up-to-date survey on recent advances in earth-air heat exchanger
(EAHE) systems for buildings, and presents systematic information on the main design …

Combining an active method and a passive method in cooling lithium-ion batteries and using the generated heat in heating a residential unit

FA Almehmadi, S Alqaed, J Mustafa, B Jamil… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a gentle air flow is simulated among cylindrical lithium-ion battery (LIIB) cells
using COMSOL software. A circular PCM compartment is placed around the battery cells …

Thermodynamic responses of adaptive mechanisms in BiPV façade systems coupled with latent thermal energy storage

J Čurpek, M Čekon, O Šikula, R Slávik - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Ventilated building-integrated photovoltaic (BiPV)/phase-change material (PCM) façades
have been applied and validated in building energy simulations; however, the dynamic …