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A review on phase change energy storage: materials and applications
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In this paper, a review of the phase change materials (PCM) and their application in energy storage is presented, where the main advantages of encapsulation are providing large heat transfer area, reduction of the PCMs reactivity towards the outside environment and controlling the changes in volume of the storage materials as phase change occurs.About:
This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2004-06-01. It has received 2636 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal energy storage & Energy storage.read more
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Advanced Materials for Energy Storage
TL;DR: This Review introduces several typical energy storage systems, including thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, hydrogen, and electrochemical energy storage, and the current status of high-performance hydrogen storage materials for on-board applications and electrochemicals for lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
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Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications
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.
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Phase change materials for thermal energy storage
TL;DR: In this article, the state of the art of phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications is reviewed and an insight into recent efforts to develop new phase change material with enhanced performance and safety.
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Materials used as PCM in thermal energy storage in buildings: A review
Luisa F. Cabeza,Albert Castell,Camila Barreneche,Camila Barreneche,A. de Gracia,Ana Inés Fernández +5 more
TL;DR: A review of the latest publications on the use of phase change materials (PCM) in buildings is presented in this article, where the authors present a classification of materials, materials available and problems and possible solutions on the application of such materials in buildings.
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A review of solar collectors and thermal energy storage in solar thermal applications
Yuan Tian,Changying Zhao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a review of solar collectors and thermal energy storage systems, including both non-concentrating collectors and concentrating collectors, in terms of optical optimisation, heat loss reduction, heat recuperation enhancement and different sun-tracking mechanisms.
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What are the potential benefits of including latent storage in common wallboard
T. K. Stovall,J. J. Tomlinson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, phase change material (PCM) was used for passive solar applications and found to save energy with a reasonable pay-back time period, but the wallboard is ineffective in modifying the comfort level but can provide significant load management relief with no energy penalty.
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An electrical storage heater using the phase-change method of heat storage
Mohammed Farid,Rafah M. Husian +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an electrical storage heater utilizing off-peak electricity, usually available at night, was developed, and its performance has been tested experimentally and theoretically, in an effort to reduce the heavy weight of the existing storage heaters that use the sensible heat method of storage.
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Thermal performance of a pcm storage unit
TL;DR: In this article, a two-dimensional model for the phase change, conduction based heat transfer problem around a tube immersed in the pcm is presented, where the energy equation is written in the enthalpy form, and the heat and flow problems are coupled by an energy balance on the fluid element flowing inside the tube.
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Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Paraffin Wax Thermal Storage System
TL;DR: In this paper, a thermal storage system consisting of vertically arranged fins between a heated and cooled horizontal finned-tube arrangement is reported, where the high thermal expansion coefficient and low viscosity of paraffin wax, at temperatures above 50/sup 0/C, are utilized to induce natural convection in the liquid phase even at small thicknesses.
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Outward phase change in a cylindrical annulus with axial fins on the inner tube
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical analysis of the phase change process in a cylindrical annulus in which rectangular, uniformly spaced axial fins, spanning the annulus, are attached to the inner isothermal tube, while the outer tube is kept adiabatic.