Analysis of energy and exergy has been performed for a latent heat storage system with phase change material (PCM) for … a flat-plate solar collector. CaCl2·6H2O was used as PCM in thermal energy storage (TES) system. The designed collector … collector. A special heat transfer fluid was used to transfer heat from collector to PCM. Exergy analysis, which is based on the …

(PCM). The aim of this paper is to analyze if the energy savings related to the stored energy of the different systems are …

sensible heat in water for short term applications. Adding PCM (phase change material) modules at the top of the water tank … would give the system a higher storage density and compensate heat loss in the top layer because of the latent heat of PCM … University of Lleida, Spain. In this work, new PCM-graphite compounds with optimized thermal properties were used, such as 80 …

the latent heat as one of the most efficient ways to store thermal energy. The mixture of phase change material (PCM … the potential for an advanced study of thermo-mechanical properties of metal foams embedded with PCM. …

change materials (PCMs) for use in numerical models. The methodology focuses on PCM enhanced building panels utilizing a heat … flow meter apparatus (HFMA) operating in dynamic mode and a numerical model based on the effective heat capacity method. It … estimation of initial Ceff curves, b) optimization of the initial Ceff curves with an algorithm incorporating the numerical model …

In this work, a CFD-based model is proposed to analyse the effect of phase change materials (PCMs) on the thermal … walls of a cubicle made of a mixture of concrete and PCM. The results show that the PCM stabilizes temperatures within the …

Fire-retarded form-stable phase change material (PCM) products consisting of paraffin (RT21) (or propyl ester), high …-stable PCM, containing different types of fire retardants such as magnesium hydroxide, aluminium hydroxide, expanded graphite (EG … test have shown that the form-stable PCM which contained APP+PER+MMT and APP+EG showed the best improvement in fire …

water heater with phase change material (PCM) for thermal storage application was designed to ensure the reliable operation …. Furthermore, energy performance between water tanks with and without PCM was compared to clarify the contribution of PCM. …