A comprehensive review on phase change materials for heat storage applications: Development, characterization, thermal and chemical stability

VV Tyagi, K Chopra, RK Sharma, AK Pandey… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) utilized for thermal energy storage applications are verified
to be a promising technology due to their larger benefits over other heat storage techniques …

Sugar alcohol phase change materials for low-to-medium temperature thermal energy storage: A comprehensive review

X Shao, S Yang, L Fan, Y Yuan - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
The adoption of appropriate phase change materials (PCMs) is deemed to be the primary
step during the course of application of latent heat storage technology. As a class of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of the liquid window of deep eutectic solvents

LJBM Kollau, M Vis, A Van Den Bruinhorst… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been considered as a new class of green solvents with
tunable physical properties based on the selective combination of their individual …

Supercooling suppression and crystallization behaviour of erythritol/expanded graphite as form-stable phase change material

M Yuan, C Xu, T Wang, T Zhang, X Pan, F Ye - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The serious supercooling of erythritol (ET) limits its application in the field of mid-
temperature thermal energy storage (TES), especially in the recently developed form-stable …

Thermal properties and thermal conductivity enhancement of composite phase change material using sodium acetate trihydrate–urea/expanded graphite for radiant …

W Fu, T Zou, X Liang, S Wang, X Gao, Z Zhang… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
For heat exchanger used as latent heat storage system, heat storage capacity and thermal
conductivity of phase change material are key indicators to determine its performance. In this …

Characterization of expanded graphite-based erythritol/urea eutectic phase change material and corresponding mathematical solar heating application analysis

X Zhang, L Guo, J Ren, X Kong - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The mid-temperature phase change materials have attracted wide attention in solar energy
storage. In this study, erythritol and urea binary eutectic mixture was prepared and …

Enhancement of the thermal energy storage capacity of a parabolic dish concentrated solar receiver using phase change materials

R Senthil, M Cheralathan - Journal of Energy Storage, 2019 - Elsevier
The enhancement of the thermal storage capacity of a solar receiver using phase change
materials (PCMs) to give inertial balance is experimentally investigated in this research …

Study on sodium acetate trihydrate-expand graphite-carbon nanotubes composite phase change materials with enhanced thermal conductivity for waste heat recovery

W Sun, G Liang, F Feng, H He, Z Gao - Journal of Energy Storage, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing phase change materials (PCMs) with excellent thermal properties and low cost
is of great significance for accelerating the applications of the latent heat storage technology …

Phase equilibrium in the design of phase change materials for thermal energy storage: State-of-the-art

SN Gunasekara, V Martin, JN Chiu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of phase equilibrium as a tool for accurately identifying
suitable blended phase change materials (PCMs) to be used for thermal energy storage …

The effects of modified carbon nanotubes on the thermal properties of erythritol as phase change materials

S Shen, S Tan, S Wu, C Guo, J Liang, Q Yang… - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Three different methods, acid oxidation, mechanochemical process and ball milling, were
used to modify multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The MWCNTs were dispersed …