A storage domestic solar hot water system with a back layer of phase change material

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 174-181

  Khalifa, Abdul Jabbar N ^a   Suffer, Kadhim H ^a   Mahmoud, Mahmoud Sh ^a  

^a AL NAHRAIN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Phase chang material; Solar heating; Storage collector

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING WATERS; HEAT SOURCES; OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; PLATE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGES; SOLAR HOT WATER; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY; STORAGE CAPACITY; THERMAL STORAGE; WATER HEATING;

HEAT STORAGE; PARAFFIN WAXES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR SYSTEM;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 84869182794     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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