Phase Change Slurries for Cooling and Storage: An Overview of Research Trends and Gaps
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2022
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Borri, Emiliano
Hua, Nan
Sciacovelli, Adriano
Wu, Dawei
Ding, Yulong
Li, Yongliang
Brancato, Vincenza
Zhang, Yannan
Frazzica, Andrea
Li, Wenguang
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Phase change slurries (PCSs) have great potential as both a heat transfer fluid and an
energy storage medium for cooling processes, cold energy storage, and cold energy transportation
due to desirable thermophysical properties. One of the major benefits of PCSs compared to pure
phase change materials is their fluidity, thus making them cooled or heated by a heat exchanger,
pumped through pipes, discharged, and stored directly in a thermal energy storage tank. The use of
encapsulated phase change slurries and gas hydrate slurry has thus attracted considerable interest as
reflected in the literature with a rising number of publications and institutions involved in the area.
The use of bibliometric techniques has found a recent interest in the literature to define the progress
of different scientific topics and inspire researchers to identify novelties. In this paper, bibliometric
analysis and a detailed systematic review are carried out to show the state-of-the-art development
of PCSs for cooling applications. Research gaps and hotspots are identified to help define future
perspectives on this topic.
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Energies, 2022, vol. 15, art. 6873.