Journal
ENERGY
Volume 233, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121158
Keywords
Erythritol; Hierarchical porous diamond; Thermal conductivity; Phase change characteristics; Adsorption characteristics
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFA0702302]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51876007, 51876008]
- Beijing Nova Program [Z201100006820065]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [3202020]
- Interdisciplinary Research Project for Young Teachers of USTB (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) [FRF-IDRY-19-004]
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The hierarchical porous diamond/erythritol composite PCM demonstrates high thermal conductivity and melting point, with erythritol playing a significant role in the composite system. Increasing the load enhances the melting point towards bulk erythritol, and the porous structure facilitates heat and mass transfer.
Erythritol as a phase change material (PCM) has the advantage of extremely high latent heat, excellent thermal stability. However, its low thermal conductivity and easy leakage greatly limit its practical application, so the development of novel shape-stabilized PCM with high thermal conductivity is of great significance. In this paper, thermal conductivity, melting point and adsorption properties of hierarchical porous diamond/erythritol composite PCM were calculated using molecular dynamics simulation. When the load of erythritol is 12.91 wt%, the thermal conductivity can reach 2.06 W.m(-1)K(-1), which is 207% higher than that of pure erythritol. The phonon vibration of erythritol plays an important role in the composite. Erythritol enhanced the mass transfer and shared part of the heat flux, which acted as an auxiliary heat channel. With the increase of load, the melting point increased and tended to bulk erythritol. The flexibility of erythritol in confined space was better, resulting in lower melting point than that in free space. The advantage of hierarchical porous diamond was verified by calculating centroid position of erythritol and interaction energy between host and guest. Significantly, the meso pore is conducive to heat and mass transfer, and the micro pore has stronger interaction with the core material. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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