Thermal Behaviour of Nanocomposite Phase Change Material for Solar Thermal Applications (original) (raw)

Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences

Abstract

The use of solar thermal technologies has shown great prospects towards solar energy conversion into more useful forms of energy and has increasingly expanded solar thermal technology applications. However, the inability to properly store the excess solar energies during peak hours and demands have limited many of their applications. The integration of thermal energy storage (TES) systems with thermal technologies have increased the solar thermal technology performance but the poor thermal characteristics exhibited by phase change materials (PCM) limited the system overall performance. The enhancement of PCM properties by nonadditive have shown increased material performance in TES application and thereby extending the use of solar thermal technology application. Given this narrative and identifies literature gaps, the present study investigated experimentally the enhancement of paraffin PCM using nonadditive metallic of different types and concentrations and analysed their thermal ...

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