Heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications: A critical review

By Nasiru I. Ibrahim, F. Al-Sulaiman, S. Rahman, B. Yilbas, Ahmet Z. Sahin. 2017

535 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. Tadhg S. O'Donovan
2. S. Landini
3. J. Leworthy
4. P. Eames
5. M. Fadl
6. M. J. Huang

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Tadhg S. O'Donovan
2. S. Landini
3. J. Leworthy
4. K. Mylsamy
5. P. Eames
6. M. Fadl
7. M. J. Huang

Citations in the corpus

• Numerical investigation of the influence of mushy zone parameter Amush on heat transfer characteristics in vertically and horizontally oriented thermal energy storage systems (2019, background): “Understanding the transient characteristics of the heat transfer processes and the limitations of different modelling approaches for the phase transition process is important for the effective design, evaluation and optimization of LHTES systems [5].”
• 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).”
• A Review of Phase Change Materials for the Thermal Management and Isothermalisation of Lithium-Ion Cells (2019, methodology): “Thus far, several studies reviewed in [109] have highlighted that porous materials typically increase the thermal conductivity of the system but lead to lower energy densities.”
• Critical review of latent heat storage systems for free cooling in buildings (2018, unknown): “Promoting the conductivity level to enhance the melting and crystallisation process during the charging and discharging periods has been investigated widely in the literature [229, 230].”
• Applications and technological challenges for heat recovery, storage and utilisation with latent thermal energy storage (2020, unknown): “Ibrahim et al. [14] reviewed several different heat transfer enhancement methods, considering the geometric design and thermal conductivity improvement for LTES storage systems.”