Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 231, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111333
Keywords
Cement paste; Calcium aluminate cement; Portland cement; Thermal energy storage; High temperature; Thermal cycles; Compressive strength
Funding
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades de Espana [RTI2018-093849-B-C31]
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) [RED2018-102431-T]
- ICREA
- Italian project SOS-CITTA - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia [2018.0499.026]
- UNIPG -CIRIAF InpathTES project
- Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) [00245]
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Concrete is a suitable material for thermal energy storage applications, with the thermal stability of cement paste being a key research focus. Ordinary Portland cement and calcium aluminate cement show different performance after thermal cycles at various temperatures.
Concrete is identified in the literature as a suitable material for thermal energy storage applications, with even innovative application potentials such as storage media in concentrating solar power plants. To ensure a suitable heat transfer among concrete components, the binder material of concrete (cement paste) require further research and understanding to this aim. In particular, the thermal stability of cement paste under temperature cycled conditions arises as a research gap. In this study, ordinary Portland and calcium aluminate cement types were selected using a low water-cement ratio. Thermo-mechanical properties were studied before and after 1, 10, and 25 or 50 thermal cycles at 200 degrees C, 400 degrees C, 600 degrees C, and 800 degrees C. Although ordinary Portland cement paste showed micro-cracking propagation after 25 thermal cycles from ambient temperature to 200 degrees C and 400 degrees C, both cement pastes preserved their integrity, being compressive strength higher in ordinary Portland cement. On the contrary, after 25 or 50 thermal cycles at 600 degrees C and 800 degrees C, only calcium aluminate cement preserved its integrity, while ordinary Portland cement revealed a fragmentation status. Despite the compressive strength decrease in calcium aluminate paste at 600 degrees C and 800 degrees C, as a result of porosity increase, the properties were maintained after 10 thermal cycles. However, thermal conductivity in calcium aluminate paste was reduced nearly 50% after the first cycle at temperatures higher than 200 degrees C.
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