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Heat Transfer Engineering

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Design and utilization of thermal energy storage applications in buildings

Thermal energy storage can have many uses in buildings and contribute to increased energy efficiency in the form of increased renewable energy fraction, reduced emissions, increased efficiency in HVAC equipment and reduced peak loads as well as to increased indoor comfort in reduced temperature swings and excess temperatures. Storage concepts applied to the building sector have been classified as active or passive systems. There is a wide range of technologies and solutions for thermal energy storage, both proven technologies commercially available as well as new emerging technologies. It is well known that there are three methods of thermal energy storage: sensible, latent, and thermochemical energy storage. The development and optimization of thermal energy storage measures are very important for building heating and heat storage. The overall aim of this SI is to gather significant research contributions and review papers focusing on, and linking, both practical applications and scientific aspects of the problem. Articles reporting original, cutting-edge research with experimental, theoretical, and numerical findings unravelling pertinent aspects of novel thermal energy storage systems in buildings will be considered. Therefore, it is necessary to classify the application of thermal energy storage in building systems and put forward some suggestions for future work.

-Design and utilization of thermal energy storage applications in buildings

-Articles reporting original, cutting-edge research with experimental, theoretical, and numerical findings unravelling pertinent aspects of novel thermal energy storage systems in buildings will be considered. Therefore, it is necessary to classify the application of thermal energy storage in building systems and put forward some suggestions for future work.

-Proposed sub-topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to the following:

Recent advances in building energy storage technologies with:

New materials used for thermal energy storage and their applications in buildings;

Development of Sensible, latent, and thermochemical heat storage systems in buildings;

Heat storage mechanism and heat transfer enhancement of thermal energy storage systems in buildings;

Numerical simulation of thermal energy storage measures in building;

New applications for thermal energy storage in buildings;

Design and operation parameters of thermal energy storage in buildings;

Modeling and simulation of thermal energy storage in buildings;

Policy analysis of thermal energy storage industry in buildings;

Safety and environmental aspects of thermal energy storage in buildings;

Thermodynamic and techno-economic analysis of thermal energy storage in buildings;

Innovative thermal energy storage system in buildings based on nanofluids, porous media, innovative fins, etc.

In addition to the following applications, recent advances in theoretical derivation, model development, engineering application, numerical simulation and experimental research on application and optimization of thermal energy storage in buildings to have more precise predictions in the above-mentioned topics are welcome to this special issue.

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