An Overview of the State of the Art and Challenges in the Use of Gelling and Thickening Agents to Create Stable Thermal Energy Storage Materials

Building cooling and heating, solar-powered energy production, energy recovery, and other energy-consuming industries have all seen an increase in the use of cold/hot latent thermal energy storage (LH-TES). Through energy recovery, LH-TES that uses phase-change materials (PCMs) as a storage medium h...

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Main Authors: Rajendran Prabakaran, Palanisamy Dhamodharan, Anbalagan Sathishkumar, Paride Gullo, Muthuraman Ponrajan Vikram, Saravanan Pandiaraj, Abdullah Alodhayb, Ghada A. Khouqeer, Sung-Chul Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-04-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/8/3306