Publication detail

Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications

JUNAID, M. UR REHMAN, Z. ČEKON, M. ČURPEK, J. FAROOQ, R. CUI, H. KHAN, I.

Original Title

Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Reutilization of thermal energy according to building demands constitutes an important step in a low carbon/green campaign. Phase change materials (PCMs) can address these problems related to the energy and environment through thermal energy storage (TES), where they can considerably enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. Concrete researches focusing on building materials revealed a vast potential of inorganic PCMs (iPCMs) utilization in thermal energy management systems particularly in the building applications as per literature; however, large but scattered literature is available on this research dimension. The current study presents an up-to-date review on iPCMs in the context of latent TES in the building sector: summarizing its performance, applications, and key challenges. The thermal performance of iPCMs is based on the higher heat storage capacity per unit volume together with lower cost value in contrast to other latent heat-based materials. However, several crucial challenges associated with iPCMs i.e., supercooling, encapsulation, phase separation, and corrosion issues are identified and discussed, which marginalize its performance in the progressive building applications. Furthermore, different proposed solutions to mitigate these issues are also comprehensively discussed. Likewise, passive and active integrations of iPCMs are systematically analyzed with building materials such as concrete, composites and novel structures with progressive technologies, most commonly used in buildings. In view of the actual challenges to building implementation, though the valuable research data on iPCMs is available in the literature, there still exist inconsistencies in both their fundamental research and development aspects and further real-scale applications. Hence, the current review addresses the profound insight into future perspectives based on the pertinent data of recent technological advances in this field. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Inorganic PCMs; Thermal energy storage; Corrosion; Building material; Salt hydrates; Latent heat

Authors

JUNAID, M.; UR REHMAN, Z.; ČEKON, M.; ČURPEK, J.; FAROOQ, R.; CUI, H.; KHAN, I.

Released

9. 9. 2021

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

Location

LAUSANNE

ISBN

0378-7788

Periodical

ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Year of study

252

Number

1

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

1

Pages to

29

Pages count

29

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821007271#!

BibTex

@article{BUT173152,
  author="Muhammad Faisal {Junaid} and Zia {ur Rehman} and Miroslav {Čekon} and Jakub {Čurpek} and Rashid {Farooq} and Hongzhi {Cui} and Imran {Khan}",
  title="Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications",
  journal="ENERGY AND BUILDINGS",
  year="2021",
  volume="252",
  number="1",
  pages="1--29",
  doi="10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111443",
  issn="0378-7788",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821007271#!"
}