Numerical and experimental investigation of a PCM-based thermal storage unit for solar air systems

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 68, Issue PARTA, 2014, Pages 488-497

  Charvát, Pavel ^a   Klimeš, Lubomír ^a   Ostrý, Milan ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Heat storage unit; Latent heat; Phase change materials; Solar air systems; Thermal storage

Indexed keywords

AIR SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HEAT STORAGE UNITS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATENT HEAT THERMAL STORAGE; SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE OPERATION; THERMAL STORAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTS; LATENT HEAT; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLAR HEATING;

HEAT STORAGE;

EID: 84887097767     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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