"A characteristic-oriented strategy for ranking and near-optimal select" by Muhammad Bilal Awan, Zhenjun Ma et al.
This paper presents a methodological approach for characteristic-based selection of phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage in building applications. Unlike previous studies that were mainly focused on applying Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to rank PCMs without using a rational ranking strategy, this study presents a weighted product method (WPM) based ranking strategy by incorporating qualitative and quantitative attributes of PCMs to rank and determine near-optimal PCMs for given applications. Qualitative attributes were converted into quantitative factors by using...
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