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Low-Temperature Thermal-Energy Storage and Transmission Systems Employing Hydrophilic Polymeric Materials [PDF]
, 1997 The wide fluctuations that occur in the aggregate electrical demand of a generating utility are punitive with respect to total system efficiency. Demand side management techniques have been applied to reduce such fluctuations including the conversion ...
Augood, P. C.
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, 2011 Innovative methods for providing sustainable heating and cooling through thermal energy storage (TES) have gained increasing attention as heating and cooling demands in the built environment continue to climb.
Cabeza, Luisa, +2 more
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Active Free Cooling Optimization with Thermal Energy Storage in Stockholm
, 2012 In the goal of reaching an environmental benign society, energy saving through green building design has gained increasing attention. Passive buildings may cut down the energy requirement in winter through use of solar based heating, increased insulation
Gravoille, Pauline, +2 more
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Thermal and exergetic analysis of Metal Foam-enhanced Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage (MF-CTES) [PDF]
, 2013 Metal Foam-enhanced Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage (MF-CTES) has been proposed to solve the problem of poor heat transfer during heat exchange process, which is caused by unavoidable decrease of temperature differences. This paper conducts a theoretical
Zhao, Changying +3 more
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Storage of Heat, Cold and Electricity
CHIMIA, 2015 A promising energy storage system is presented based on the combination of a heat pump, a heat engine, a hot and a cold storage. It can be operated as a pure bulk electricity storage (alternative to Pumped Heat Electrical Storage (PHES ...
Anastasia Stamatiou +5 more
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Blanket Cooling of a Fusion Reactor
Energies, 2023 Nuclear fusion is the gateway to a whole new paradigm of energy and is a strong candidate for the decarbonization of electricity generation on a global scale.
Robert Beaufait, Ludger Fischer
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Investigation of Lactones as Innovative Bio-Sourced Phase Change Materials for Latent Heat Storage
Molecules, 2019 In the presented work, five bio-based and bio-degradable cyclic esters, i.e. lactones, have been investigated as possible phase change materials for applications in latent heat storage systems. Commercial natural lactones such as ε-caprolactone and &
Rebecca Ravotti +5 more
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Energies, 2020 In this study, the thermal performance of latent heat thermal energy storage system (LHTESS) prototype to be used in a range of thermal systems (e.g., solar water heating systems, space heating/domestic hot water applications) is designed, fabricated ...
Mohamed Fadl, Philip Eames
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Melting of PCM in a thermal energy storage unit: Numerical investigation and effect of nanoparticle enhancement [PDF]
, 2012 The present paper describes the analysis of the melting process in a single vertical shell-and-tube latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES), unit and it is directed at understanding the thermal performance of the system.
Sciacovelli, Adriano +3 more
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Special Issue “Advanced Phase Change Materials for Thermal Storage”
Applied Sciences, 2021 Thermal energy storage using phase change materials (PCMs) is a research topic that has attracted much attention in recent decades [...]
Rocío Bayón
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