Energy applications of magnetocaloric materials

A Kitanovski - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Caloric devices: A review on numerical modeling and optimization strategies

DJ Silva, J Ventura, JP Araujo - International Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of giant caloric effects and further investigation on device systems that can
compete with current heat management technologies in terms of efficiency have led to a …

Self-sustaining personal all-day thermoregulatory clothing using only sunlight

Z Wang, Y Bo, P Bai, S Zhang, G Li, X Wan, Y Liu, R Ma… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The human body must stay within a certain temperature range for comfort and safety.
However, challenges for thermoregulatory clothing exist for harsh application scenarios …

Heat transfer performance and transport properties of ZnO–ethylene glycol and ZnO–ethylene glycol–water nanofluid coolants

KS Suganthi, VL Vinodhan, KS Rajan - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Experiments were carried out on preparation and characterization of ZnO–ethylene glycol
(EG) and ZnO–ethylene glycol–water nanofluids and analysis of their performance as …

Caloric effects in perovskite oxides

A Barman, S Kar‐Narayan… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite oxides show an amazing diversity of electronic and magnetic properties along
with a myriad of structural variants and phase transitions. Large thermal changes may be …

Effect of inactive section on cooling performance of compressive elastocaloric refrigeration prototype

J Zhang, Y Zhu, S Cheng, S Yao, Q Sun - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric (eC) cooling using shape memory alloy (SMA) with zero direct carbon
emission is a promising alternative of traditional vapor-compression technology …

Energy-efficient miniature-scale heat pumping based on shape memory alloys

H Ossmer, F Wendler, M Gueltig… - Smart Materials and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Cooling and thermal management comprise a major part of global energy consumption. The
by far most widespread cooling technology today is vapor compression, reaching rather high …

Thermal control elements for caloric energy conversion

K Klinar, A Kitanovski - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Caloric energy conversion is an emerging field of cooling, heat-pumping and power-
generation technologies. The potentially high energy efficiency and use of environmentally …

Solid-state refrigeration: A comparison of the energy performances of caloric materials operating in an active caloric regenerator

C Aprea, A Greco, A Maiorino, C Masselli - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The energy performances of an Active Caloric Refrigerator are reported in this paper. An
ACR is tested under a vast number of solid-state refrigerants exhibiting one of the four main …

Pseudo-first-order phase transition for ultrahigh positive/negative electrocaloric effects in perovskite ferroelectrics

HH Wu, J Zhu, TY Zhang - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The electrocaloric effect of ferroelectric materials, which occurs significantly near the first-
order paraelectric/ferroelectric transition (FOPFT) Curie temperature, has tremendous …