The effect of graphene nanoparticles on the thermal conductivity enhancement of organic phase change material and its energy storage properties

• Autorzy: Rolka Paulina , Lackowski Marcin

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DOI

10.24425/ather.2023.149710

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Organic phase change materials (PCMs), which are typically used as the accumulating material in latent heat thermal energy storage, provide chemical and thermal stability, but have low thermal conductivity. This limits heat transfer rates and prolongs storage charging/discharging time. A method to improve the thermal conductivity of organic PCMs is to add nanomaterials with high thermal conductivity. The paper presents the research on the effect of the addition of graphene nanoparticles (GNPs) on the thermal conductivity of organic PCM (RT28 HC), and its energy storage properties. The transient hot wire and the pipe Poensgen apparatus methods were used to measure thermal conductivity, and the differential scanning calorimetry method was used to determine the heat capacity and phase change temperature. The achieved characteristics of thermal conductivity depending on the amount of added graphene nanoparticles (and stabilizer) indicate that GNPs allow to increase the thermal conductivity on average by 26–87% in the solid state and by 7–28% in the liquid, but this reduces the PCM heat capacity. Therefore, the paper indicates what mass fraction of dopants is optimal to achieve the greatest improvement in thermal conductivity of RT28 HC and its smallest reduction in heat capacity, to use this nano-enhanced PCM in practice.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

phase change materials; PCMs; nano-enhanced phase change materials; NEPCMs; thermal conductivity; heat capacity; latent heat thermal energy storage; LHTES

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Maszyn Przepływowych PAN ; Komitet Termodynamiki i Spalania PAN
• Czasopismo: Archives of Thermodynamics
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 44, no 4
• Strony: 103--121
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 30 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Rolka Paulina

• Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Fiszera 14, 80-231 Gdańsk, Poland

autor

Lackowski Marcin

• Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Fiszera 14, 80-231 Gdańsk, Poland

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