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Sub cooling of PCM due to various effects during solidification in a vertical concentric tube thermal storage unit
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This article is published in Applied Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2013-04-15. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heat transfer & Free cooling.read more
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Review on phase change material based free cooling of buildings—The way toward sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, a review article aims to update and consolidate the substantial work carried out in the recent years by various researchers on free cooling technology using phase change materials (PCM) in latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems.
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On the effect of eccentricity of a horizontal tube-in-shell storage unit on solidification of a PCM
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the eccentricity from the center of the outer shell of a horizontal shell-and-tube type-storage system to understand the solidification behavior based on the transient temperature fields inside PCM.
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Opportunities and challenges of PCM-to-air heat exchangers (PAHXs) for building free cooling applications—A comprehensive review
Mohamed Dardir,Mohamed Dardir,Karthik Panchabikesan,Fariborz Haghighat,Mohamed El Mankibi,Yanping Yuan +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the utilization of PCM-to-Air Heat Exchangers (PAHXs) for building free cooling applications is discussed in detail, focusing on hot desert climate.
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Phase equilibrium in the design of phase change materials for thermal energy storage: State-of-the-art
TL;DR: A review of phase equilibrium as a tool for accurately identifying suitable blended phase change materials (PCMs) to be used for thermal energy storage (TES) is presented in this paper.
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Passive cooling potential in buildings under various climatic conditions in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the outcome of various research works carried out in the field of evaporative cooling, nocturnal radiative cooling and phase change material (PCM) based free cooling of buildings under various climatic conditions.
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Influence of accuracy of thermal property data of a phase change material on the result of a numerical model of a packed bed latent heat storage with spheres
TL;DR: In this paper, a cylindrical LHTES containing spheres filled with paraffin was developed to model the thermal response of the phase change material (PCM) to thermal energy storage.
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Natural convection heat transfer coefficients in phase change material (PCM) modules with external vertical fins
TL;DR: In this paper, a cylindrical module of 88 mm of diameter and 315 mm height with external vertical fins of 310 mm height and 20 and 40 mm length was used to determine the heat transfer coefficient by natural convection.
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Approximate analytical model for two-phase solidification problem in a finned phase-change material storage
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a simplified analytical model which predicts the solid-liquid interface location and temperature distribution of the fin in the solidification process with a constant end-wall temperature in the finned two-dimensional phase-change material (PCM) store.
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Modeling of subcooling and solidification of phase change materials
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of subcooling in phase change materials (PCM) is considered and a new algorithm is proposed to simulate sub-cooling with respect to the driving temperature gradient on unloading the storage.
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Subcooling in hexadecane emulsions
TL;DR: In this article, an experimental study on subcooling in hexadecane emulsions with droplet size in the range of about 0.1-20μm was conducted.