期刊
11TH INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE CONFERENCE, IRES 2017
卷 135, 期 -, 页码 249-262出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.517
关键词
Phase change materials (PCMs); Thermal energy storage (TES); Renewable materials; Cost-effective; Temperature-history (T-history) method
资金
- Swedish Energy Agency [34948-1]
In searching for new candidates to be used in latent heat storage, it is desirable to explore food-grade materials of renewable origin. Here, erythritol, glycerol, and olive oil have been characterized as PCMs. An assessment of the production process of erythritol (melting between 117-120 degrees C with an enthalpy around 300 kJ/kg) indicates its renewable aspects as a PCM. In addition, a simplified cost assessment of high-purity erythritol production, using glycerol, indicates a potential cost reductions up to 130-1820 times lower than the current laboratory-grade prices. Glycerol already is cost-effective. However, the glycerolerythritol system, evaluated using the Temperature-history (T-history) method, did not exhibit phase change suitable for PCMs. Glycerol, and up to 30 mol% erythritol compositions had no phase change due to glass transition; the remainder froze but with large supercooling; and the system underwent thermally activated change. Hence, to realize glycerol or the glycerol-erythritol system as PCMs, further research is needed primarily to device fast-crystallization. Olive oil is a cost-effective food commodity, with potential for further cost reductions by mass-production. An olive oil sample, containing the fatty acids: linoleic, palmitic, oleic, margaric, and stearic was evaluated using the T-history method. This olive oil melted and froze between-4.5 to 10.4 degrees C and-8 to-11.9 degrees C respectively, with the respective enthalpies 105 and 97 kJ/kg. As the specific heat (cp) profiles of olive oil displayed two peaks, the composition adjustment of olive oil could yield a eutectic or confirm a polymorph. In either case, olive oil has a potential to be a PCM e.g. in chilling applications, while its properties such as thermal conductivity need to be determined. As a whole, this study exemplifies the potential of renewable organic materials, in pure and blend forms, as sustainable PCMs, making TES with PCMs sustainable. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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