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. …

A prototype thermoelectric system integrated with PCM (phase change material) heat storage unit for space cooling has … been introduced in this work. The PCM heat storage functions as cooling source and carries, partially at least, the cooling … load during cooling operation. A simplified analytical model for the thermoelectric module has been adopted to investigate …

. Therefore, three approaches are presented for the simulation of the same storage system: a numerical model, a simplified … analytical one and a simplified 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 …

The thermal performance of a PCM based solar chimney is experimentally investigated in this paper. The research is … that for a same charge period of 7h 10min though the PCM does not fully melts in the cases of 600W/m2 and 500W/m2, the …

This article describes the development of a CFD 2D model of a new type of ventilated active façade which includes a PCM … tested to model the PCM. To model the radiation, S2S and DO sub-models were tested. RNG k–ε, Standard k–ω and SST k … consideration it was suitable to consider the PCM to be a solid material with variable Cp. The DO model accurately reproduced the …

between the two coaxial pots is filled with a phase change material (PCM) forming an intermediate jacket. The ensemble is … thermally simulated using 1-D finite differences. A lumped elements model with convective heat transfer correlations is used for … the internal behavior of the utensil, subjected to external radiation. This numerical model is used to study its transient …

a phase change material (PCM) in its outer layer. The research was carried out experimentally by means of a real … that the melting–solidification processes that take place in the PCM led to an increase in the heat absorption during the … chamber was overheated up to 12°C during the daytime. Because of the PCM solidification, 2.5h after the solar radiation faded …

the storage tank with high temperature control close to the melting point. Tube in PCM tank is a very promising system … that provides high packing factor. This work presents an experimental study of a PCM tank for cold storage applications … PCM storage system was defined as that of a heat exchanger. The results showed that the heat exchange effectiveness of the …