Thermophysical properties and applications of nano-enhanced PCMs: An update review

L Yang, J Huang, F Zhou - Energy conversion and management, 2020 - Elsevier
Energy conservation management using latent heat storage (LHS) technique is nowadays
employed as a solution to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions …

A cross-scale 'material-component-system'framework for transition towards zero-carbon buildings and districts with low, medium and high-temperature phase change …

Y Zhou, Z Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Transition towards a carbon-neutral district energy community calls for carbon elimination
and offsetting strategies, and phase change materials (PCMs) with substantial potential …

Experimental and numerical investigations of thermal performance enhancement in a latent heat storage heat exchanger using bifurcated and straight fins

V Safari, H Abolghasemi, B Kamkari - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effects of applying straight and bifurcated fin configurations on melting
behavior of paraffin inside the shell-and-tube heat exchangers are both experimentally and …

Thermal optimization of shell and tube heat exchanger using porous baffles

MH Mohammadi, HR Abbasi, A Yavarinasab… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, total heat transfer rate and pressure drop along a shell and tube heat
exchanger (STHX) with 6 porous baffles are numerically investigated. To study the impacts …

Effect of geometry modification on the thermal response of composite metal foam/phase change material for thermal energy storage

C Nie, J Liu, S Deng - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, seven vertical shell-tube latent heat storage (LHS) systems are built to explore
the effect of geometry on the melting and solidification behavior of phase change material …

Effects of fins arrangement and parameters on the consecutive melting and solidification of PCM in a latent heat storage unit

C Nie, S Deng, J Liu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2020 - Elsevier
This study is to investigate the characteristics of consecutive melting and solidification of a
phase change material (PCM) in a horizontal double tube LHS unit. Fins is used to improve …

Performance study of phase change materials coupled with three-dimensional oscillating heat pipes with different structures for electronic cooling

YZ Ling, XS Zhang, F Wang, XH She - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Electronic cooling has been a rising issue mainly due to the rapid development of high-
throughput computing in data centres as well as battery energy storage, which release huge …

Energy and exergy analysis of an experimentally examined latent heat thermal energy storage system

M Rahimi, SS Ardahaie, MJ Hosseini, M Gorzin - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, an experimental investigation is carried out on a Latent Heat Thermal Energy
Storage system (LHTES). All the experimental data are optimized using thermodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review on the use of heat pipes in latent heat thermal energy storage tanks

JM Maldonado, A de Gracia, LF Cabeza - Journal of Energy Storage, 2020 - Elsevier
This systematic review presents and discusses the previous research about hybrid devices
which combine latent thermal energy storage (TES) technology and heat pipes. A …

The effect of novel fin shapes and non-uniform magnetic field on the nanoparticles embedded PCM melting in a tube

SD Farahani, AD Farahani, F Tayebzadeh… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the heat transfer and melting process of the phase change material (PCM) in a
cylindrical space with different internal fins with the presence of nanoparticles and a non …