A review of thermal energy storage technologies and control approaches for solar cooling

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 975-995

  Pintaldi, Sergio ^a,b   Perfumo, Cristian ^b   Sethuvenkatraman, Subbu ^b   White, Stephen ^b   Rosengarten, Gary ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control strategy; Optimization; Solar air conditioning; Solar cooling; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COOLING; HEAT STORAGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; LATENT HEAT; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; COOLING APPLICATIONS; ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES; OPTIMISATIONS; SOLAR AIR-CONDITIONING; SOLAR COOLING; SOLAR THERMAL; STORAGE CONTROL; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; THERMAL STORE;

THERMAL ENERGY;

EID: 84925863583     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.062     Document Type: Review

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