1 Volume 2. No. 1. 2023 Journal homepage: https://ejournal.ump.ac.id/index.php/rice A Brief Review and Its Incorporation with Bibliometric Analysis of Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage Farikha Maharani 1 , Indah Hartati 1* 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Wahid Hasyim University, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, 50232 Email: hartatiprasetyo@gmail.com ABSTRACT Reduction of Food Losses and Wastes (FLW) through the use of cold chain is one strategy applied in accelerating the SDGs goals of zero hunger. The application of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) based on PCM (Phase Change Material) is considered as one of best efforts for the simultaneous reduction of food losses and wastes, reduction of energy consumption as well as preserve the right temperature for food product. This paper presents the review of phase change material for thermal energy purposes and its bibliometric analysis. Bibliometric analysis on term of cold chain logistics show that there is correlation between cold chain and terms of optimization, vehicle routing, carbon emission, refrigeration, and phase change materials. The definition of TES and PCM, as well as the advantages of TES based on latent material are described in this paper. PCMs is classified into solid-solid, solid-liquid, solid-gas and liquid-gas based on its phase. The potential generation of gas and larger volume on solid-gas and liquid-gas PCMs limits the application of those two types of PCMs. PCMs is also classified according to the phase change temperature in which low, medium and high temperature PCMs. Organic, inorganic and composite based PCMs are the classification of PCMs based on the chemical composition. Among the types of PCMs, this paper present a deep review of paraffin based organic PCMs. The appearance of term of thermal conductivity in bibliometric analysis on term of organic phase change materials is due to organic PCMs commonly have low thermal conductivity. Keywords: cold chain, PCMs, bibliometric, thermal energy storage 1. Introduction In 2015, the United Nations drew up Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in which one of its goals is Zero Hunger. Policies and strategies have been set in order to accelerate zero hunger. One of strategies for zero hunger acceleration is reduction of food losses and wastages (FLW) [1]. Food Losses (FL) is defined as the process of food loss in production and distribution stage prior of consumption stage. Food loss during production chain can occur in the pre- harvest, postharvest, storage, packaging and distribution stages (FAO, 2011). In the meantime, Food Waste (FW) is defined as qualified and consumable food but for some reasons cannot be- used or be-consumed [2]. FAO stated that the total of FLW is up to 1.3 billion tons per year which is one-third of world food production. The food loss is up to 630 million tons while the food waste is up to 670 billion tons per year [1], [2]. The recent update mentioned that 13.8% of food loss occurs on postharvest stage (FAO, 2019; UNEP, 2021). Furthermore, as much as 44% of food waste is generated on 2018 in Indonesia as reported in the data of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) of the Republic of Indonesia. Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are the two largest FLW producing countries in the world. The production of FLW in Indonesia is reaching 300 kg per capita per year [3]. The FLW causes negatives impact on the environment as well as on our social and economics. The global contribution of FLW on the release of greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 4.4 giga tons. The FLW generation is also impacting the economics loss. It is estimated that the loss is up to IDR 213-551 trillion/year during 2000-2019. The economics loss number is equal to 4-5% of Indonesia's Article Info Submit: 16 June 2023 Revision: 10 August 2023 Accepted: 11 August 2023 First Online: 13 August 2023