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Journal of Refrigeration, Air conditioning, Heating and ventilation

A Review on the Performance of the Phase Change Material on the Solar Energy Collector Devices

  1. Jyoti Rani
  2. Kriti Srivastava

Abstract

Energy is the basic need for all developing countries and India is also a developing country. Energyis central to performing the interrelated economic, social aim of human development. Solar energy isa rapid growing technology and have gained a lot of attention because it is renewable source ofenergy and is available in abundance in India. Due to over exploitation of fossil fuel soon there willbe its scarcity. This will not only save the fuel but also reduce the pollution. So, it is very important toswitch towards renewable source of energy. Phase change material is the material that is utilized tostore the solar energy for long time and that can be used at night or during rainy and cloudy days.This paper discussed the performance of the phase change material if used in solar water heater/solarair heater. The phase change material is used in the thermal energy storage device the performanceof the storage is increased and the exergy is also increased. The limitation of the solar energycollector devices is changing after used phase change material (PCM). Analyzed that if PCM is usedthe supply temperature is not suddenly down it slowly gets down and supply hot water for a long time.In general, solar energy collector devices or solar water heater gives hot water up to 4 PM but afterusing PCM the efficiency of the solar water heater is increased, time of collect hot water is increasedand we can get hot water even after sunset.

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