A comprehensive review on phase change materials for heat storage applications: Development, characterization, thermal and chemical stability

VV Tyagi, K Chopra, RK Sharma, AK Pandey… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) utilized for thermal energy storage applications are verified
to be a promising technology due to their larger benefits over other heat storage techniques …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analyses of solar air heating systems with and without thermal energy storage for sustainable development: A systematic …

SK Pathak, VV Tyagi, K Chopra, B Kalidasan… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar air heating is the most widely used for crop drying, building and space heating
applications due to its technological maturity and economic viability. Still, solar air heaters …

Novel approaches and recent developments on potential applications of phase change materials in solar energy

AK Pandey, MS Hossain, VV Tyagi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) can be applied to several different solar energy systems for
the extended heat energy storage which is quite useful as the solar energy is intermittent in …

Evaluation of the nanofluid and nano-PCM based photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system: An experimental study

AHA Al-Waeli, K Sopian, MT Chaichan… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The increase in the PV cell temperature ultimately causes a reduction in its effectiveness.
One of the new methods used to retain that efficiency is to establish a hybrid photovoltaic …

Developments in organic solid–liquid phase change materials and their applications in thermal energy storage

RK Sharma, P Ganesan, VV Tyagi… - Energy conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage as sensible or latent heat is an efficient way to conserve the waste
heat and excess energy available such as solar radiation. Storage of latent heat using …

A comprehensive study on the progressive development and applications of solar air heaters

V Goel, VS Hans, S Singh, R Kumar, SK Pathak… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of solar air heaters (SAH) for the collection and effective utilization of solar
radiations for thermal applications is widely reported in the literature. The current article …

Recent development on heat transfer and various applications of phase-change materials

L Yang, X Jin, Y Zhang, K Du - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage and phase change materials (PCMs) have become one of the most
important research subjects in recent years. The present paper first introduces the …

Phase change materials integrated solar thermal energy systems: Global trends and current practices in experimental approaches

B Kalidasan, AK Pandey, S Shahabuddin… - Journal of Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar thermal systems (STSs) are gaining boom in the globalized market since last two
decades to combat the menace of global warming. Considerable research has been carried …

Experimental investigation of using nano-PCM/nanofluid on a photovoltaic thermal system (PVT): Technical and economic study

AHA Al-Waeli, HA Kazem, MT Chaichan… - Thermal Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper shows a technoeconomic evaluation of a PVT system. The PV cooling system
consists of a tank attached to the panel back side filled with PCM (paraffin wax) mixed with …

Experimental investigation of thermal performance of flat and v-corrugated plate solar air heaters with and without PCM as thermal energy storage

AE Kabeel, A Khalil, SM Shalaby, ME Zayed - Energy Conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this research is to carry out an experimental investigation of flat and v-
corrugated plate solar air heaters with built-in PCM as thermal energy storage material. The …