In recent years, the utilization of organic phase change materials (PCM) is increasingly attractive especially for the storage of thermal energy in building fabric materials absorbing solar energy. From this perspective, ...

The quest and interest shown towards developing organic phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage (TES) applications in buildings are gaining momentum in recent years. From this perspective, the present study ...

In recent years, the growing needs for fulfilling the comfort cooling requirements with efficient refrigerating and air conditioning systems have gained impetus. In this work, the performance of a combined variable refrigerant ...

This article investigates the phase change characteristics of finned encapsulations in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system for buildings. The effect of various fin configurations on moving interface ...

The quest towards energy conservative building design is increasingly popular in recent years, which has triggered greater interests in developing energy efficient systems for space cooling in buildings. In this work, ...

The present work reports the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles, using Beta vulgaris peel extract with a subsequent investigation on the size distribution and surface structure of nanoparticles formed under various ...

This work aims at achieving enhanced energy conservation for space conditioning with the application of a new combined variable air volume (VAV)-based chilled water air conditioning (A/C) system and thermal energy storage ...

his paper presents the analytical and experimental investigations of the phase change heat transfer characteristics and thermodynamic behavior of spherically enclosed phase change material (PCM) with dispersion of nanoparticles ...

Thermal Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability is a broad-based overview describing the state-of-the-art in latent, sensible, and thermo-chemical energy storage systems and their applications across industries. ...

Energy management in buildings is indispensable which would control the energy use as well as the cost involved while maintaining comfort conditions and requirements in indoor environments. Energy management is intensely ...