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Simultaneous energy storage and recovery in the triplex-tube heat exchanger with PCM, copper fins and Al2O3 nanoparticles

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In this paper, a triplex-tube heat exchanger (TTHX) with phase change materials (PCMs) has been found to be a very efficient energy storage application for this purpose, but the low thermal conductivity of PCMs makes them unable to give the desired response for storage and recovery.
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This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2019-01-15. It has received 177 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fin & Energy storage.

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An updated review on application of nanofluids in heat exchangers for saving energy

TL;DR: In this paper, a review on application of nanofluids in heat exchangers has been addressed, and it can be concluded that the use of nanophotonics in most cases improves heat transfer, which reduces the volume of heat exchanger, saving energy, consequently water consumption and industrial waste.
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Solidification enhancement with multiple PCMs, cascaded metal foam and nanoparticles in the shell-and-tube energy storage system

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal response of the shell-and-tube energy storage system consisting of multiple segments holding separate phase-change materials (PCMs) of different melting points was studied.
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Hybrid heat transfer enhancement for latent-heat thermal energy storage systems: A review

TL;DR: A review of the major studies on the hybrid heat transfer enhancement techniques can be found in this paper, where it was found that best enhancement is achieved via the hybrid application of the heat pipe with fins or metal foam.
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Thermophysical properties and applications of nano-enhanced PCMs: An update review

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of nanoparticles on the most important thermophysical properties of phase change materials (PCMs) are discussed and the applications of nano-PCMs in the fields such as thermal energy storage (TES), thermal control unit (TCU), photovoltaic thermal thermal (PVT), solar still (SS), and building are examined.
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Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms.
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A stable and accurate convective modelling procedure based on quadratic upstream interpolation

TL;DR: In this paper, a convective modeling procedure is presented which avoids the stability problems of central differencing while remaining free of the inaccuracies of numerical diffusion associated with upstream differencings.
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Multi-Factor Experimental Designs for Exploring Response Surfaces

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of the variance function for an experimental design is introduced, and the problem of selecting practically useful designs is discussed, and in this connection, the notion of variance function is introduced.
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Experimental determination of thermal conductivity of three nanofluids and development of new correlations

TL;DR: In this paper, a model was developed to account for the thermal conductivity of nanofluids as a function of temperature, particle volumetric concentration, the properties of nanoparticles, and the base fluid, which agrees well with the experimental data.
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