Development and comparative analysis of the modeling of an innovative finned-plate latent heat thermal energy storage system

Energy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 438-447

  Campos Celador, A ^a   Diarce, G ^a   Gonzalez Pino I ^a   Sala, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experimental; PCM; Simulation; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; NUMERICAL MODELS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; THERMAL ENERGY;

COGENERATION SYSTEMS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EXPERIMENTAL; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; SIMULATION; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84881107644     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.06.032     Document Type: Article

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