Experimental evaluation of commercial heat exchangers for use as PCM thermal storage systems

By M. Medrano, M. Yilmaz, M. Nogués, I. Martorell, J. Roca, L. F. Cabeza. 2009

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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A Comprehensive Review of Thermal Energy Storage (2018, unknown): “PCMs might be able to increase the energy density of small-sized water storage tanks, reducing solar storage volume for a given solar fraction or increasing the solar fraction for a given available volume [7].”
Internal and external fin heat transfer enhancement technique for latent heat thermal energy storage in triplex tube heat exchangers (2013, background): “[31] experimentally investigated the heattransfer properties, melting (charge), and solidification (discharge) process of paraffin RT35 PCM in a small double-pipe heat exchanger with 13 circular fins and PCM in the annular space.”
Experimental and numerical investigation of a phase change material: Thermal-energy storage and release (2011, unknown): “An extensive amount of research of problems involving phase change solid–liquid (fusion or solidification) has been done in various scientific and technological domains as well as for industrial applications [1], such as, metallurgy and petrochemical industries, glass and plastic companies, food ind”
An experimental investigation of shell and tube latent heat storage for solar dryer using paraffin wax as heat storage material (2016, background): “[12] experimentally studied the heat transfer characteristics of five small heat exchangers working as latent heat thermal storage systems, during the charge and discharge processes.”
Effects of nano-SiO2 on morphology, thermal energy storage, thermal stability, and combustion properties of electrospun lauric acid/PET ultrafine composite fibers as form-stable phase change materials (2011, background): “The storage of energy, particularly thermal energy, has attracted growing research interests recently [1–5]; among various methods for the storage of thermal energy, the approach of using phase change materials (PCMs) for the storage of latent heat thermal energy has acquired considerable attentions”