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Microencapsulation of Paraffin with Poly (Urea Methacrylate) Shell for Solar Water Heater (2019)
Journal Article
Su, W., Li, Y., Zhou, T., Darkwa, J., Kokogiannakis, G., & Li, Z. (2019). Microencapsulation of Paraffin with Poly (Urea Methacrylate) Shell for Solar Water Heater. Energies, 12(18), Article 3406. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12183406

Previous research has demonstred that microencapsulated phase change materials (MEPCMs) could significantly increase the energy storage density of solar thermal energy storage (TES) systems. Compared with traditional phase change materials (PCMs), ME... Read More about Microencapsulation of Paraffin with Poly (Urea Methacrylate) Shell for Solar Water Heater.

Numerical thermal evaluation of laminated binary microencapsulated phase change material drywall systems (2019)
Journal Article
Su, W., Darkwa, J., & Kokogiannakis, G. (2020). Numerical thermal evaluation of laminated binary microencapsulated phase change material drywall systems. Building Simulation, 13, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-019-0563-z

Microencapsulated phase change materials (MEPCMs) have the potential for energy storage applications in buildings. However, current MEPCMs are limited by their singular phase change transitional temperatures and are therefore unable to satisfy all ye... Read More about Numerical thermal evaluation of laminated binary microencapsulated phase change material drywall systems.

Phase Change Material Blind System for Double Skin Façade Integration: System Development and Thermal Performance Evaluation (2019)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Darkwa, J., Kokogiannakis, G., & Su, W. (2019). Phase Change Material Blind System for Double Skin Façade Integration: System Development and Thermal Performance Evaluation. Applied Energy, 252, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113376

Double skin facades (DSFs) are often applied as energy reducing elements in modern buildings, but do experience overheating problems in warm seasons which may contribute to increase in cooling loads. There are currently various thermal management dev... Read More about Phase Change Material Blind System for Double Skin Façade Integration: System Development and Thermal Performance Evaluation.

The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review (2019)
Journal Article
Arshad, A., Jabbal, M., Yan, Y., & Darkwa, J. (2019). The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review. International Journal of Energy Research, 43(11), 5572-5620. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.4550

With advancement in technology, the nanotechnology, various thermal energy storage (TES) materials have been invented and modified with promising thermal transport properties. The solid–liquid phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively used... Read More about The micro‐/nano‐PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review.

A numerical and experimental analysis of an integrated TEG-PCM power enhancement system for photovoltaic cells (2019)
Journal Article
Darkwa, J., Calautit, J., Du, D., & Kokogianakis, G. (2019). A numerical and experimental analysis of an integrated TEG-PCM power enhancement system for photovoltaic cells. Applied Energy, 248, 688-701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.147

Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells especially crystal silicon cells have witnessed a soaring installed capacity during past years. Research efforts have been made to increase the PV conversion efficiency and one direction is towards the cooling of PV syst... Read More about A numerical and experimental analysis of an integrated TEG-PCM power enhancement system for photovoltaic cells.

Effect of design parameters on thermal performance of integrated phase change material blind system for double skin façade buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Darkwa, J., Kokogiannakis, G., & Su, W. (2019). Effect of design parameters on thermal performance of integrated phase change material blind system for double skin façade buildings. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 14(2), 286-293. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctz010

Double skin facades (DSFs) have overheating problems in warm seasons which may increase the cooling loads in buildings. A previous study has developed an integrated phase change material (PCM) blind system and proved its capacity of mitigating the ov... Read More about Effect of design parameters on thermal performance of integrated phase change material blind system for double skin façade buildings.

Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season (2019)
Journal Article
Kokogiannakis, G., Darkwa, J., Badeka, S., & Li, Y. (2019). Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season. Energy and Buildings, 185, 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.12.038

We used outdoor test cells during a hot humid period to analyse the surface temperatures behind the following four types of green walls: a felt layer wall; a planter boxes wall; a direct climbing plants wall, and; an indirect climbing plants wall. We... Read More about Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season.