Synergizing environmental and technological advances: Discarded transmission oil and paraffin wax as a phase change material for energy storage in solar distillation as a step towards sustainability

• Main Authors: Suraparaju, Subbarama Kousik, Samykano, Mahendran, Dhivagar, Ramasamy, Natarajan, Sendhil Kumar, Ghazali, Mohd Fairusham
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2024
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/41423/1/Synergizing%20environmental%20and%20technological%20advances.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/41423/2/Synergizing%20environmental%20and%20technological%20advances%20-%20Discarded%20transmission%20oil%20and%20paraffin%20wax%20as%20a%20phase%20change%20material%20for%20energy%20storage%20in%20solar%20distillation%20as%20a%20step%20towards%20sustainability.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/41423/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.111046

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