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 …

An overview of environmental energy harvesting by thermoelectric generators

M Feng, S Lv, J Deng, Y Guo, Y Wu, G Shi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting sustainable energy from environmental energy through thermoelectric
generators to uninterruptedly generate clean electricity offers a potential solution to the …

[HTML][HTML] Salinity gradient solar ponds hybrid systems for power generation and water desalination

M Tawalbeh, RMN Javed, A Al-Othman… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar energy is preferred over other energy sources because of its low cost, ease of
collecting, and availability as a source of power, as well as its effectiveness in reducing …

Experimental investigation on passive cooling, thermal storage and thermoelectric harvest with heat pipe-assisted PCM-embedded metal foam

WQ Li, YX Li, TH Yang, TY Zhang, F Qin - International Journal of Heat and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the progresses of intelligence and integration of electronic devices, the growing
demand for electrical energy will inevitably give rise to the increase of exhausted heat which …

Experimental study of a novel hybrid photovoltaic/thermal and thermoelectric generators system with dual phase change materials

Y Maleki, F Pourfayaz, M Mehrpooya - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) cell technology has evolved dramatically since its invention. However, the
adverse effects of the rise in the temperature of solar cells on electrical efficiency are still a …

Heat transfer mechanism and structure design of phase change materials to improve thermoelectric device performance

JH Meng, DY Gao, Y Liu, K Zhang, G Lu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of phase change materials (PCM) to improve the output performance
of semiconductor thermoelectric generators (TEG) and maintain the long-term work of TEG …

Numerical analysis of a solar driven thermoelectric generator brick with phase change materials: Performance evaluation and parametric investigations

Y Cai, BH Hong, SQ Zhuang, RB An, WX Wu… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric generator (TEG) integrated with phase change material (PCM) has attracted
increasingly wide attentions in the past few years, such as PCM applied on the hot side to …

State of the art and future prospects for TEG-PCM Systems: A review

RP Kandi, MM Sudharmini, A Suryan… - Energy for Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
The clean energy transition demands a complete revamp of the global energy sector from
fossil fuels to renewables. Accelerating this transition shall be greatly beneficial for the …

Influence of geometric parameter and contact resistances on the thermal-electric behavior of a segmented TEG

Y Luo, L Li, Y Chen, CN Kim - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric (TE) generation technology plays an increasingly significant role in a global
environment. A desirable approach to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric generator …

Performance optimization for a novel two-stage thermoelectric generator with different PCMs embedding modes

H Yang, M Li, Z Wang, F Ren, Y Yang, B Ma, Y Zhu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel two-stage TEG with different phase change materials (PCMs)
embedding modes is proposed to improve the efficiency of TEG systems. The output power …