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Experimental assessment of inorganic salts impregnated silica gel matrix for thermal energy storage applications.

Paper written by Paper written by A. Fotia, E. Mastronardo, V. Brancato, , C. Milone, A. Frazzica and L. Calabrese.

Presented at the ENERSTOCK 2024 - The 16th IAE EST CP International Conference on Energy Storage in Lyon, France on June 5-7, 2024.

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Comparisson of dried samples of silica gel

Analysis of a hybrid heating system with TRNSYS: district heating, heat pumps and photovoltaics in a multi-apartment building

Paper written by George Dogkas, Alexandros Tsimpoukis, Grigorios Itskos, Juan Carlos del Castillo, Ismael Lozano, Ola Gustafsson, and Nikolaos Nikolopoulos.

Article in journal Energy and Buildings, published October 1, 2025.

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Enhancement of CaCl2/silica gel composites sorbent stability for low-grade Thermal Energy Storage

Paper written by Antonio Fotia, Vincenza Brancato, Emanuela Mastronardo, Luigi Calabrese, and Andrea Frazzica.

Article in journal Journal of Energy Storage, published October 1, 2025.

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Fig. 1. BET results of SG and three sample with different percentage of CaCl2: a) N2 isotherms, where the solid line represents the adsorption phase, and the dashed line represents the desorption phase; b) Pore volume distribuition and cumulative pore volume.

Artificial intelligence in state of charge estimation: Pioneering approaches across energy storage systems

Paper written by Nadiya Mehraj, Carles Mateu, Hector Bastida, Yongliang Li, Yulong Ding, Adriano Sciacovelli, and Luisa F. Cabeza.

Article in journal Energy, published October 30, 2025.

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Thermal optimization of a PCM-based heat exchanger: A modeling approach

Paper written by Giovanni Tanda, Carlo Alberto Niccolini Marmont du Haut Champ, and Stefano Barberis. 

Article in journal Applied Thermal Engineering, published December 1, 2025.

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Influence Of Horizontal Partitions On Pcm Melting In a Side-Heated Narrow Vertical Cavity

Paper writtenby Giovanni Tanda, Carlo Alberto Niccolini Marmont du Haut Champ, and Stefano Barberis.

Publication in conference proceedings, Proceedings of the 18th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-18) August 2–7, 2026.

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Unexplored synthetic approaches for CaCl2 impregnation for thermal energy storage

Paper written by A. Fotia, E. Mastronardo, V. Brancato, A. Frazzica and L. Calabrese.

Pressented at the ENERSTOCK 2024 - The 16th IAE EST CP International Conference on Energy Storage in Lyon, France on June 5-7, 2024.

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Ice-based thermal storage: impact of water-quality over metastability effects

Poster writen by Tommaso Reboli , Marco Ferrando , Stefano Barberis , Alberto Traverso.

Presented at the EUROTHERM 2023 Conference in Lleida, Spain on May 24-26, 2023.

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