... 07 07 2024 07 08 2024 Graphical Abstract Figure energy storage phase change materials metal foams heat transfer Office of Naval Research 10.13039/100000006 No. N00014-19-1-2006 Solar energy is a preferable solution for providing power to soldiers...

...Valeri Bubnovich; Alejandro Reyes; Macarena Díaz The performance of a solar collector with wax as a phase change material (PCM) located in a set of staggered pipes configuration was simulated computationally in this work. For the solar radiation of Chile, the accumulation of heat in the PCM system...

... 14 04 2011 25 07 2011 25 07 2011 condensers (steam plant) cooling phase change materials phase change memories solar power stations steam power stations turbines dry cooling CSP PCM Most of the power cycles currently used in concentrated solar power (CSP...

...R. Pokhrel; J. E. González; T. Hight; T. Adalsteinsson The addition of latent heat storage systems in solar thermal applications has several benefits including volume reduction in storage tanks and maintaining the temperature range of the thermal storage. A phase change material (PCM) provides high...

... to the phase changing material, which is today seen as most suitable for a 500 ° C DSG power plant, the main steam pressure at the storage system has to be 156 bars. Hence, a generic turbine based on an extrapolation of the Siemens SST-700 ( 6 ) was used for the power block layout. For the 400...

... the two-phase heat transfer fluid poses a major challenge. A three-part storage system is proposed where a phase change material (PCM) storage will be deployed for the two-phase evaporation, while concrete storage will be used for storing sensible heat, i.e., for preheating of water and superheating...

... heating and refrigeration applications, the experience for the power level and temperature range characteristic of solar process heat and solar thermal power plants is limited. Cost effective implementation of the latent heat storage concept demands low cost phase change materials (PCMs). These PCMs...

... from the design, and experimental performance evaluation of high capacity thermal energy storage using so-called phase change materials (PCMs) as the storage media. A 140 l 15 kW h storage prototype was designed, built, and experimentally evaluated. The storage tank was directly filled with the PCM...

...Yeliz Konuklu; Halime Ö. Paksoy In this study, a phase change material (PCM) sandwich panel was developed and tested to evaluate the resulting decrease in heating and cooling loads of a test cabin in Adana, Turkey, where Mediterranean climate prevails. The panel was formed by a macropackage...

... power density is in the range 10 – 25 kW / m 3 , so it is proven that the major problem of phase change material (PCM) storage of low heat transfer rates has been overcome and high-temperature PCM storage with large capacity factor is possible. 22 12 2008 21 04 2009 22 09 2009...

...E. Palomo Del Barrio; J. L. Dauvergne; V. Morisson A new method for characterization of shape-stabilized phase change materials (PCMs) based on one single sample and one single experimental device has been proposed. The simplicity of the experimental device is comparable to that of the T-history...

... materials with the inclusion of phase change materials (PCM). PCM are a suitable and promising technology for this application. This paper presents an experimental setup to test PCM with various typical insulation and construction materials in real conditions in Puigverd de Lleida (Lleida, Spain). Nine...

... technique is used to develop the numerical model to obtain the temperature profiles of both the phase change material (PCM) and heat transfer fluid (HTF), and the molten mass fraction of the PCM at any axial location of the cylindrical storage tank during the charging process. The model also incorporates...

... for this purpose. On the other hand, in applications with small temperature changes, phase change materials (PCMs) provide high energy density since the latent heat is much larger than the sensible heat. This is the case of stratified hot water tanks, where the temperature change in the top layer is small...

..., price, etc.). During the charging period, heat from the condensing steam would be transferred to the melting phase change material (PCM) while during the discharging step, heat from the solidifying PCM would be used to generate high pressure steam for the steam turbine cycle. Latent heat based...

...Wolf-Dieter Steinmann; Rainer Tamme Solar thermal systems, including direct steam generation in the absorbers, require isothermal energy storage systems. One option to fulfil this requirement is the application of phase change materials (PCMs) to absorb or release energy. The implementation of cost...

...K. S. Reddy The thermal modeling and analysis of a transparent insulation materials (TIM) covered solar integrated collector storage (ICS) water heating system with phase-change material (PCM) is carried out in this paper. The system consists of a double rectangular enclosure of cross section 1 m...

...L. H. Alva S.; J. E. González; N. Dukhan This paper investigates the technical feasibility of innovative solar collectors. The proposed collectors have a phase change material (PCM) integrated into them as the storage mechanism. The PCM-integrated solar collector eliminates the need of conventional...

...S. Mozhevelov; G. Ziskind; R. Letan The objective of this work is to study the feasibility of temperature moderation inside a room using a phase-change material (PCM) which is stored in storage units. A real-size room which is at temperature conditions typical in a desert region in summer...

...Yinping Zhang; Xu Xu; Hongfa Di; Kunping Lin; Rui Yang The novel shape-stabilized phase change material (PCM) has the following salient features: large apparent specific heat for the phase change temperature region, suitable thermal conductivity, and the ability to keep the shape stabilized when...