Advances in thermal energy storage: Fundamentals and applications

HM Ali, T Rehman, M Arıcı, Z Said, B Duraković… - Progress in Energy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply
challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to …

Porous flow field for next-generation proton exchange membrane fuel cells: materials, characterization, design, and challenges

G Zhang, Z Qu, WQ Tao, X Wang, L Wu, S Wu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Porous flow fields distribute fuel and oxygen for the electrochemical reactions of proton
exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells through their pore network instead of conventional …

Review on heat conduction, heat convection, thermal radiation and phase change heat transfer of nanofluids in porous media: Fundamentals and applications

HJ Xu, ZB Xing, FQ Wang, ZM Cheng - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing the heat transfer rate of heat transfer equipment is an ever-lasting topic in thermal
engineering. Due to the advantages of light weight, high specific surface, high thermal …

Heat and fluid flow analysis of metal foam embedded in a double-layered sinusoidal heat sink under local thermal non-equilibrium condition using nanofluid

H Arasteh, R Mashayekhi, M Goodarzi… - Journal of Thermal …, 2019 - Springer
The present study aims to enhance the hydrothermal performance of a porous sinusoidal
double-layered heat sink using nanofluid. The optimum thickness of metal foam (nickel) for …

Optimal arrangements of a heat sink partially filled with multilayered porous media employing hybrid nanofluid

H Arasteh, R Mashayekhi, D Toghraie… - Journal of Thermal …, 2019 - Springer
Although many studies have addressed the urge of exploring the porous media partially
embedded in a channel due to its wide engineering applications, the heat transfer and fluid …

Phase change heat transfer and energy storage in a wavy-tube thermal storage unit filled with a nano-enhanced phase change material and metal foams

M Ghalambaz, AA Melaibari, AJ Chamkha… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Latent heat thermal energy storage plays a key role in the thermal management of heat
transfer systems, shifting thermal loads, and developing renewable systems. A latent heat …

Challenges and progress on the modelling of entropy generation in porous media: a review

M Torabi, N Karimi, GP Peterson, S Yee - International Journal of Heat and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Depending upon the ultimate design, the use of porous media in thermal and chemical
systems can provide significant operational advantages, including helping to maintain a …

Thermal transport in microchannels partially filled with micro-porous media involving flow inertia, flow/thermal slips, thermal non-equilibrium and thermal asymmetry

HJ Xu - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
The theoretical investigation of the fully-developed forced convection heat transfer in a
microchannel partially filled with a porous medium core is performed by considering the …

Improved thermal energy storage with metal foam enhanced phase change materials considering various pore arrangements: A pore-scale parallel lattice Boltzmann …

M Shirbani, M Siavashi, M Hosseini… - Journal of Energy Storage, 2022 - Elsevier
Low thermal conductivity of the phase change materials (PCMs) is the main impediment that
causes avoiding their extensive usage for thermal energy storage. Metal foams can be used …

Discharge improvement of a phase change material‐air‐based thermal energy storage unit for space heating applications using metal foams in the air sides

HI Mohammed - Heat Transfer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the energy discharge of a phase‐changing material (PCM)‐based air
heat exchanger using a metal foam inside the heat transfer fluid (HTF) channel. Such …