Scientists have used stearic acid and a combination of stearic acid and carbon black to increase thermal conductivity in a photovoltaic-thermal system linked to a heliostat field concentrator. From a ...

Researchers from China have designed a novel building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) system that integrates a layer of phase change material (PCM) on each side of the wall. Dubbed double-PCM BIPV ...

Abstract: The upper limit to the output SNR of sampled-data PCM systems is set by the quantization noise. The present study is concerned with a method of overcoming this limitation by employing time ...

An international research team has tested change material heat sinks for heat management on a concentrator photovoltaic system. It found that increasing over height ratios lowers the formation of ...