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Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications

Phase change materials for thermal energy storage

Thermal energy storage technologies and systems for concentrating solar power plants

Review on phase change materials (PCMs) for cold thermal energy storage applications

Recent developments in phase change materials for energy storage applications: A review

Aggressive Pre-Cooling of an Office Building to Reduce Peak Power During Extreme Heat Days Through Passive Thermal Storage

Using building cooling for load shifting on a 5-minute wholesale energy market

There are few heat pumps in industry which make use of both the heating and cooling generated at the same time. The University of South Australia is involved in the development of one such system for a dairy farm. In order to take advantage of the cheap off-peak electricity tariff, the heat pump generates ice in an ice-bank during the night, which is used for milk cooling during the day. The heat released while the ice is being made is used to produce the daily requirements of hot water. The advantages of this system are that both initial capital cost and energy consumption are reduced. The paper describes the operation of this system and presents some results to indicate the system performance and energy cost savings.

Energy Efficient Simultaneous Heating And Cooling

Thermal storage systems with phase change materials are predominantly designed through numerical modelling. This can be a time consuming process. An alternative simplified method is being proposed for the design of these phase change thermal storage systems. The method is based on the effectiveness-Number of Transfer Units (eNTU) technique. A mathematical model has been developed using the e-NTU technique for a cylindrical tank filled with phase change material (PCM), with heat transfer fluid flowing through tubes inside the tank. Experiments have been carried out on a cylindrical tank filled with PCM and with one, two and four coils of tubes to validate the models. Experimental results compare well with those calculated from the model. The results show that this technique can readily be used as a design tool for sizing and optimising a thermal storage unit with phase change materials. From this study, it may be concluded that the model based on the e-NTU technique can accurately predict the effectiveness of the thermal storage system during charging and discharging.

Frank Bruno

Papers

Aggressive Pre-Cooling of an Office Building to Reduce Peak Power During Extreme Heat Days Through Passive Thermal Storage

Using building cooling for load shifting on a 5-minute wholesale energy market

Energy Efficient Simultaneous Heating And Cooling

Design Methodology for Coils in a Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage System using the Effectiveness-NTU method

Subcooling effect on the optimal performance for a transcritical CO2 heat pump with cold thermal energy storage