Experimental and numerical study on thermal energy storage of polyethylene glycol/expanded graphite composite phase change material

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 111, Issue , 2016, Pages 242-252

  Lv, Yajun ^a   Zhou, Weibing ^b   Jin, Weizhun ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF WATER RESOURCES AND ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Composite PCM; Experimental study; Heat transfer performance; Latent heat properties; Numerical simulation; PEG EG

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY STORAGE; GRAPHITE; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; LATENT HEAT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL ENERGY;

COMPOSITE PCM; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAPHITE COMPOSITES; HEAT PROPERTIES; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84949515267     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.11.042     Document Type: Article

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