Recent progress in solar thermal energy storage using nanomaterials
By S. Ahmed, M. Khalid, W. Rashmi, A. Chan, K. Shahbaz. 2017
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Abstract Use of thermal energy storage (TES) materials in solar collectors is known to be the most effective way of storing thermal energy. The most conventional and traditional heat storage element is water. However, due to low thermal conductivity (TC) in vapor state its applications as a heat storage medium are limited. An alternative option is to utilize organic and inorganic TES materials as they both operate at low and medium temperature ranges. Organic TES materials such as paraffins are non-corrosive and possess high latent heat capacity. On the contrary, inorganic TES materials possess high density and appreciable specific heat capacity (SHC). Due to rapid progress and advancement in nanotechnology, varieties of nanomaterials were dispersed in various base fluid(s) to enhance thermo-physical properties. This review paper presents the current status and future development trends of TES materials. Furthermore, an extensive research on enhancement of TC and SHC of various TES material doped with nanomaterials has been discussed.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Characterization of Hybrid-nano/Paraffin Organic Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage Applications in Solar Thermal Systems (2020, background): “The recent review papers [14,15] and experimental studies [16,17] evidenced the prospective of highly conductive metal, metal oxide, and carbon-based nanoparticles to augment the thermal properties of organic phase changing compounds.”
- Experimental investigations on thermal properties of nano-SiO2/paraffin phase change material (PCM) for solar thermal energy storage applications (2019, methodology): “Among the existing methods, the dispersion of highly conductive nanoparticles in paraffin wax becomes the interest of the most of the researchers as it contributes an appreciable enhancement in thermal conductivity of base PCM (Ahmed et al. 2017; Ibrahim et al. 2017; Liu et al. 2015).”