The application range of existing real scale mobile thermal storage units with phase change materials (PCM) is restricted by the low phase change temperature of 58 ∘ C for sodium acetate trihydrate, which is a commonly used storage material. Therefore, only low temperature heat sinks like swimming pools or greenhouses can be supplied. With increasing phase change temperatures, more applications...

-Electrical energy consumption varies significantly during the day and night according to the demand by industrial, commercial and residential activities, especially in extremely hot and cold climate countries where the major part of the variation is due to domestic space heating and air conditioning. Such variation leads to a differential pricing system for peak and off peak periods of energy ...

Latent heat storage using phase change materials (PCMs) is one of the most efficient methods to store thermal energy. Therefore, PCM have been applied to increase thermal energy storage capacity of different systems. The use of PCM provides higher heat storage capacity and more isothermal behaviour during charging and discharging compared to sensible heat storage. Moreover, thermal energy stora...

The Research Group in Applied Energy (GREA) started a research work on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) in 1999. Since then we have been working on different aspects of these materials and have carried out a substantial amount of experiments (thickening, corrosion, heat transfer enhancement) in the laboratory with various types of phase change materials: paraffins, salt hydrates and even fatty aci...

Three composite phase change materials (PCMs) were prepared by blending butyl stearate, dodecanol and RT20 with an organically modified montmorillonite (MMT), respectively. After the three composite PCMs were characterized by DSC, it was indicated that the RT20/MMT composite PCM was a good candidate for building applications due to its large latent heat, suitable phase change temperature and go...

This paper is focused on preparation and performance analysis of a series of form-stable phase change materials (FSPCMs), based on eutectic mixtures as phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage and high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) polymer as supporting materials. The PCMs were eutectic mixtures of tetradecanol (TD)-capric acid (CA), TD-lauric acid (LA...