Dan Zhou

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized previous works on latent thermal energy storage in building applications, covering PCMs, the impregnation methods, current building applications and their thermal performance analyses, as well as numerical simulation of buildings with PCMs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of PCMs embedded in open-cell metal foams and expanded graphite, respectively, and show that the addition of porous materials, either opencell metal foam or expandable graphite can enhance the heat transfer rate of PCM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of two hybrid carbon nano-additives (CNs) fillers, that is, Expanded Graphite-Multi-walled Carbon Nano-tube (EG-MWCNT) and Expanded graphite- Carbon nano-fiber(EG-CNF), on the thermal conductivity of Paraffin-HDPE SSPCM was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of wallboard thermal properties on its thermal performance were investigated for both interior and exterior phase change material wallboards, with a numerical study examining the effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of thermal cycling on the thermophysical properties, such as phase transition temperature, latent heat, chemical compatibility, thermal stability and thermal conductivity, was studied.