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Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Solar Energy Storage in Rockbeds and Encapsulated Phase Change Material Packings

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The present lecture notes deal with thermal energy storage addressed to solar-heating process. More particularly the use of air-rockbed and encapsulated Phase-Change Material is considered.

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Buchlin, JM. (1989). Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Solar Energy Storage in Rockbeds and Encapsulated Phase Change Material Packings. In: Kılkısş, B., Kakaç, S. (eds) Energy Storage Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 167. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2350-8_11

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