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JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2022.104594
Keywords
Form-stable phase change material; Myristic acid/SEBS composite; Thermal conductivity; Shape stability; Performance enhancement; Thermal energy storage
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- Taishan Scholar Foundation [tsqn201909110]
- high-end talents development program of Beijing University of Technology, China
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By utilizing SEBS as structure material, MA as PCM, and graphite as a thermal conductivity enhancer, a high-efficiency composite material with excellent chemical compatibility and stable structure was successfully prepared. The composite showed a constant melting temperature around 53 degrees Celsius, high latent heat, and thermal conductivity. Further enhancement of thermal conductivity and mechanical strength of the composite can be achieved by incorporating HDPE.
To overcome the challenges of low thermal conductivity and leakage of fatty acid based phase change materials (PCMs), a high-efficiency form-stabilized composite, with the use of styrene ethylene butylene styrene (SEBS) as structure material, was prepared and investigated in this work. The myristic acid (MA) was used as PCM and graphite was employed as thermal conductivity enhancer to improve composite thermal conductivity. A series of characterizations were performed to investigate the composite microstructure, chemical compatibility and thermal properties. Furthermore, the thermal conductivity and mechanical strength enhancement of the composite were evaluated by dispersing of high density polyethylene (HDPE). The results showed an excellent chemical compatibility in the composite. The MA can be uniformly dispersed in the SEBS matrices and 15 wt% SEBS endowed the composite with the capacity to maintain structure stabilization. The Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Laser Flash Analyser results revealed that the MA/SEBS/graphite composite with a mass ratio of 85:15:10 presented a constant melting temperature around 53 degrees C, high latent heat of 150.33 kJ/kg and high thermal conductivity of 0.655 W/m.K. The composite thermal conductivity and mechanical strength can be further enhanced by adding of HDPE and a loading of 5 wt% HDPE achieves the enhancement of the composite thermal conductivity and mechanical strength respectively by 25.4% and 16.4%.
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