Better Pizza with Phase Change Materials

For many generations, pizza continues to be one of America’s favorite foods and a staple for many college students and single adults. It is a simple, unpretentious, pragmatic, allinone meal that appeases the youngest to the oldest across all ethnicities. With the ease of delivery, Americans can enjoy pizza anytime, anywhere. So, have you ever ordered a pizza and it was delivered lukewarm with gloppy cheese?

A group of pizza loving, engineering students, while taking Dr. Ravi Gorthala's heat transfer and thermal engineering class at the University of New Haven, devised an experiment using phase change materials for a simple and creative solution to keep pizza warm.

Thermal Energy Storage Market to Reach $3.6 Billion Worldwide by 2020

A recent Yahoo press release highlighted a recent report from Pike Research that forecasts a total revenue from worldwide sales of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) to grow steadily over the remainder of this decade, reaching $3.6 billion by 2020.  Thermal energy storage (TES) is most often used as an effective means of shifting electrical peak load use from daytime peak periods to less expensive periods of the day or at night, saving money, stabilizing load on HVAC equipment, stabilizing load on power plants and increasing overall power generation & distribution system efficiency.

CSP Industry to discuss 2013 challenges in New Delhi this March

CSP Today reported that Leaders of the concentrated solar power industry in India will discuss upcoming challenges as PV competition intensifies. The publication By Beatriz Gonzalez on Jan 7, 2013 highlights the comments from the industry specialists. 

Global Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage market forecast 2012 -2016

Technavio has published a market analysis report "Global Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage Market 2012 - 2016" where it's analysts forecast the Global Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage market to grow at a CAGR of 17.25 percent over the period 2012-2016.  Technavio is the syndicated research wing of Infiniti Research, with over 1,800 off-the-shelf reports on niche and upcoming technology markets. 

Temperature control for wine shipping containers

A few wine lovers discussed a serious wine shipping issue in the Wine Cellar Insider forum. One talked about his countless instances when he received wines either cooked in the summer time or frozen in the winter time, even with overnight shipping option. Another agreed that this is a serious concern and because of this the actual taste of wine could be lost.

Unique PCM based technology to enhance efficiency of beverage coolers

A consortium named iCool has been organized in European Union to develop a unique technology that makes effective use of phase changes materials (PCM) within beverage coolers. The aim of this technology is to downsize the cooler's cooling system thereby significantly increasing it's energy efficiency.  

Phase-changing materials in trial to preserve vaccines - SciDev.Net

Phase-changing materials in trial to preserve vaccines - SciDev.Net