Micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) for solar photothermal absorption and storage: Fundamentals, recent advances, and future directions

SA Albdour, Z Haddad, OZ Sharaf, A Alazzam… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Building on their dual functionality for solar photothermal absorption and storage,
slurries/dispersions of micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) are …

PCM-assisted energy storage systems for solar-thermal applications: Review of the associated problems and their mitigation strategies

V Goel, A Dwivedi, R Kumar, R Kumar… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Latent heat energy storage (LHES) system is identified as one of the major research areas in
recent years to be used in various solar-thermal applications. However, there are various …

An analytical study of coupled convective heat and mass transfer with volumetric heating describing sublimation of a porous body under most sensitive temperature …

V Chaurasiya, J Singh - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Sublimation heat-mass transfer has great applications in the pharmaceutical and food
industries, such as the preservation of biological products, accelerated freeze-drying (AFD) …

A study on cylindrical moving boundary problem with variable thermal conductivity and convection under the most realistic boundary conditions

V Chaurasiya, A Wakif, NA Shah, J Singh - … Communications in Heat and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The melting of a phase change material is the most applicable process in thermal energy
storage system to capture heat transfer phenomena arising in a class of moving boundary …

A comprehensive review of modeling water solidification for droplet freezing applications

S Akhtar, M Xu, M Mohit, AP Sasmito - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Various mathematical approaches undertaken to model all stages of droplet freezing are
reviewed. The literature is rife with theoretical, experimental, and numerical treatments of the …

Artificial mitochondrion for fast latent heat storage: experimental study and lattice Boltzmann simulation

Y Tian, X Liu, H Zheng, Q Xu, Z Zhu, Q Luo, C Song… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The packed-bed latent heat storage technique has been widely applied in thermal energy
management and harvesting, but its extensive deployment remains limited due to its slow …

Experimental and unified mathematical frameworks of water-ice phase change for cold thermal energy storage

M Xu, Y Gao, F Fang, S Akhtar, BA Chaedir… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cold thermal energy storage (CTES) is a process that supplies cold thermal energy to a
medium for storage and extracts it whenever is needed. The storage medium is phase …

Revolutionizing the latent heat storage: Boosting discharge performance with innovative undulated phase change material containers in a vertical shell-and-tube …

HS Sultan, HI Mohammed, N Biswas… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines the impact of various parameters, including frames, zigzag number,
and enclosure shape, on the solidification process and thermal energy storage rate of a …

Multi-scale analysis for solidification of phase change materials (PCMs): experiments and modeling

M Xu, Y Hanawa, S Akhtar, A Sakuma, J Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a multi-scale solidification framework for pure substances using laboratory
experiments and mathematical modeling. The multi-scale phenomena of solidification are …

Heat transfer analysis describing freezing of a eutectic system by a line heat sink with convection effect in cylindrical geometry

V Chaurasiya, D Kumar, KN Rai… - … für Naturforschung A, 2022 - degruyter.com
The current article devoted to study a moving boundary problem describing freezing of a
eutectic system in a semi-infinite medium in cylindrical symmetry. The solidification of the …