High performance storage composite for the enhancement of solar domestic hot water systems

Design of a low-temperature solar heating system based on a slurry Phase Change Material (PCS)

“…1(b)) has been proposed in Refs. [30,31]. It has been called SDHW-PCM, and it includes a PCM node in the HTF primary solar loop of the system.…”

Review of the application of phase change material for heating and domestic hot water systems

“…Haillot et al [28] evaluated the performance of the DHW system with PCM. In this system, PCM was inserted into a flat plate solar collector to replace the collector absorber.…”

“…The results suggested that the characteristics of three of the four composites were suitable for integration into the solar collector, with the exception of sodium acetate trihydrate. Haillot et al [29] numerically evaluated the incorporation of PCM into the solar collector to enhance the performance of DHW systems based on the selection and synthesis of the PCMs reported in [28]. To improve the thermal performance of the DHW system, the researchers selected compressed and expanded natural graphite and RT65 composites.…”

Solar domestic hot water systems using latent heat energy storage medium: A review

“…This integrated solar collector storage water heater approach was developed from early systems and comprised simply of a simple black vessel placed in the solar collector [54]. The thermal performance of the integrated PCM solar collector has been widely investigated [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64].…”