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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 413, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2020.127549
Keywords
Ternary nitrate; Phase change material; Modified expanded graphite; Hydrophilicity; Compatibility
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51536003, 21471059]
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The study investigated a form-stable ternary nitrate composite phase change material with modified expanded graphite, which showed optimal performance in water and ternary nitrate PCM when 15% SiO2 modified MEG was added. The CPCM demonstrated suitable phase change temperature, high phase change enthalpy, low supercooling degree, and outstanding thermal conductivity, with stable performance after 200 thermal cycles.
A form-stable ternary nitrate (LiNO3.3H2O-KNO3-NaNO3) composite phase change material (CPCM) with modified expanded graphite (MEG) as carrier was investigated. In order to improve the hydrophilicity of expanded graphite (EG) and its compatibility with ternary nitrate, the SiO2 particles prepared by sol?gel method was used as modifier to form a hydrophilic coating on EG to obtain MEG. The pore structure morphology as well as the adsorption capacity for ternary nitrate of EG and MEG were analyzed in detail. The shape-stability and thermal properties of the obtained CPCM were also evaluated. The results showed that the MEG with 15 wt% SiO2 exhibited optimal affinity to water and ternary nitrate PCM. With the addition of 20 wt% MEG, the configured CPCM owned a suitable phase change temperature (21.66 ?C), high phase change enthalpy (158.7 J/ g), low supercooling degree (1.56 ?C) and outstanding thermal conductivity (4.565 W/m.K). Moreover, the thermal performance differences of the CPCM were relatively small after 200 thermal cycles, indicating that the prepared CPCM can be applied in the room temperature thermal energy storage technology.
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