Thermal energy storage for low and medium temperature applications using phase change materials – A review

By J. Cunha, P. Eames. 2016

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A comprehensive review of phase change materials (PCMs) with phase transition temperatures between 0 and 250°C is presented. From that review, organic compounds and salt hydrates seem more promising below 100°C and eutectic mixtures from 100 to 250°C.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• A review of microencapsulated and composite phase change materials: Alteration of strength and thermal properties of cement-based materials (2019, positive): “To overcome this issue, researchers are focusing on developing shape stabilizing PCM by using encapsulation (micro and macro) techniques [26,27].”
• Micro-Encapsulated Phase Change Materials: A Review of Encapsulation, Safety and Thermal Characteristics (2016, background): “This review summarized the applications of encapsulated PCMs in active heating/cooling systems as a means to increase heat transfer rates [8].”
• Experimental investigations on thermal properties of nano-SiO2/paraffin phase change material (PCM) for solar thermal energy storage applications (2019, background): “Unceasing supply of thermal energy during the demand period is highly challenging, while conniving the solar thermal systems such as solar water heaters, solar air heaters, solar distillation, solar driers and other solar thermal applications (Da Cunha and Eames 2016; Kaygusuz 1999).”
• Inorganic Salt Hydrate for Thermal Energy Storage (2017, background): “Different types of PCMs have been studied after petroleum crisis in 1970s, including solid-solid PCMs (polyalcohols and other polymers), solid-gas PCMs and solid-liquid PCMs (salt and salt hydrates, clathrate hydrates, paraffins, fatty acids and their mixtures, alloys and ect) [3,4].”
• Advances in thermal energy storage materials and their applications towards zero energy buildings: A critical review (2017, background): “Thus, they show a higher potential for applicability in buildings [65] albeit with some disadvantages such as their low thermal reliability for long-operation periods [29], phase segregation, subcooling and corrosiveness [6,58,63,66].”
• n-Alkanes Phase Change Materials and Their Microencapsulation for Thermal Energy Storage: A Critical Review (2018, neutral): “Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5 (16), 7482-7493.”