Phase change material for enhancing solar water heater, an experimental approach

Design of a low-temperature solar heating system based on a slurry Phase Change Material (PCS)

“…Many examples of PCSs based storage tanks for solar systems can be found in the literature [34,55,43]. One of the main disadvantages of latent heat storage systems is the low thermal conductivity of many PCMs, which causes poor melting and solidification rates.…”

Thermal Analysis and Modelling of Thermal Storage in Solar Water Heating Systems

“…In order to validate the proposed model to predict the behavior of phase change material in a solar thermal tank, experimental data presented by Fazilati, and Alemrajaki, [16] have been simulated during the charging and discharging process have been presented in Figures 16 and 17. It is quite clear from the results presented in Figure.16 that the proposed model fairly predicted the data of time variation of the paraffin wax temperatures during the charging process and the sensible heat periods.…”

Integration of PCM in domestic hot water tanks: Optimization for shifting peak demand

“…Some studies suggested that implementing PCMs inside the tank can increase the energy density of hot water tanks [8][9][10] and prolong the discharge time [11][12][13][14] while some reported that using phase change materials inside the hot water tanks is not always beneficial and other design and operational parameters have more impact on the performance of the hot water tanks [15][16][17].…”