@ARTICLE{Rao_Ravipudi_Venkata_Phase_2024,
 author={Rao, Ravipudi Venkata},
 volume={vol. 45},
 number={No 3},
 journal={Archives of Thermodynamics},
 pages={67-79},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences},
 abstract={This study provides a simple and effective decision-making method to choose the best phase-change material for different energy storage applications. Three case studies are provided to demonstrate the proposed decision-making method. The first case study addresses the problem of best phase-change material selection for a domestic water heating latent heat storage system by considering 15 different phase-change materials and 8 selection attributes; the second case study addresses the problem of selecting the best phase-change material for a triple tube heat exchanger unit by considering 12 different phase-change materials and 5 selection attributes; the third case study addresses the problem of best phase-change material selection for latent heat thermal energy storage within the walls of Trombe to enhance performance considering 11 phase-change materials and 4 selection attributes. The results of the proposed decision-making method are compared with those of other well-known multi-attribute decision-making methods. The proposed method is shown to be simple to implement, providing a logical way for allocating weights to the selection attributes and adaptable to phase-change material selection problems in different energy storage contexts.},
 type={Article},
 title={Phase change material selection for energy storage units using a simple and effective decision-making method},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/132015/7_AOT-00745-2024-Rao.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ather.2024.151217},
 keywords={Energy storage, Phase-change material selection, Selection attributes, Decision-making method},
}