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Properties of High-anisotropy Hexadecanoic Acid/Expanded Graphite Form-stable Phase Change Heat Storage Materials |
WU Shaofei1,2, YAN Ting1,2, KUAI Zihan1,2, PAN Weiguo1,2
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1 College of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China 2 Key Laboratory of Clean Power Generation and Environmental Protection Technology in Mechanical Industry, Shanghai 200090, China |
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Abstract Hexadecanoicacid (HA) was selected as the substrate and expanded graphite (EG) was adopted as the supporting material of high thermal conductivity. High form-stable precision HA/EG composite phase change materials (PCMs) were fabricated by the improved method of melting blend-solidification and form-stability. Thermal properties of form-stable PCMs samples with different parameters were systematically measured. The effects of microstructure, functional group distribution, crystalline phase, mass fraction of EG and sample density on the properties of form-stable PCMs were investigated by various instruments. The results showed that the blend of HA and EG were more uniformly and the combination degrees were enhanced with the increasing mass fraction and density of HA, which was absorbed into the porous structure of EG by physical interaction rather than chemical reaction. The melting enthalpy of pure HA and form-stable PCMs with the EG mass fraction and sample density of 30% and 900 kg/m3 were 275.35 kJ/kg and 193.01 kJ/kg, and the melting point of 59.53 ℃ and 61.08 ℃, respectively. The horizontal thermal conductivity of the latter was as high as 38.42 W/(m·K), which was about 236 times higher than that of pure HA (0.162 W/(m·K)). The vertical thermal conductivity of the latter was 2.68 W/(m·K), which was less than one-fourteenth of the horizontal, which showed high anisotropy. The cyclic stability test results of all the samples suggested that the EG mass fraction of 24% and 30% with samples had a slight leakage, which were lower than 0.85% and exhibited the wonderful cycle stability. HA/EG form-stable PCM was a kind of latent heat storage material with excellent performance, which had a broad application prospect in solar thermal utilization.
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Published: 23 February 2021
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Fund:This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21546014), Key Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (18DZ1202502). |
Corresponding Authors:
yt81725@126.com;pweiguo@163.com
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About author:: Shaofei Wu is currently a postgraduate student at Shanghai University of Electric Power. His research direction is novel composite phase change materials and heat storage system. Weiguo Pan obtained his M.E. and Ph.D. degree in engineering thermo-physics from Zhejiang University. So far he has been teaching in Shanghai University of Electric Power. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor enjoying the special allowance from the State Council. In 2000, he broke rank to become a professor. He has published more than 200 journal papers, applied 70 national invention patents and published 6 academic works and textbooks in both Chinese and English. His team's research interests are energy conservation and emission reduction in power plants, efficient utilization of renewable energy, etc. Ting Yan has been a lecturer in Shanghai University of Electric Power after received his Ph.D. degree in power engineering and engineering thermo-physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in Sep. 2011—Jan. 2016. His research direction is heat energy storage and low grade heat energy recycling. He has published more than ten papers in Energy Storage Materials, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy, Renewable Energy and other top international journals. |
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