Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications
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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.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2012-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1569 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal energy storage.read more
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Overview of current development in electrical energy storage technologies and the application potential in power system operation
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A review on phase change material (PCM) for sustainable passive cooling in building envelopes
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TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive list of different organic, inorganic and eutectic phase change materials appropriate for passive cooling in buildings is reviewed, and full-scale testing and numerical modeling are found to be the most popular investigative methods used for experimental and theoretical analysis of PCMs.
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A Comprehensive Review of Thermal Energy Storage
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Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials and applications
TL;DR: The use of a latent heat storage system using phase change materials (PCMs) is an effective way of storing thermal energy and has the advantages of high energy storage density and the isothermal nature of the storage process.
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Review on thermal energy storage with phase change: materials, heat transfer analysis and applications
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the history of thermal energy storage with solid-liquid phase change has been carried out and three aspects have been the focus of this review: materials, heat transfer and applications.
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A review on phase change energy storage: materials and applications
TL;DR: 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.
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Low temperature latent heat thermal energy storage: Heat storage materials
TL;DR: In this article, the melting and freezing behavior of various heat-of-fusion storage materials is investigated using the techniques of Thermal Analysis and Differential Scanning Calorimetry.
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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.