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Synthesis and thermal energy storage properties of a calcium-based room temperature phase change material for energy storage

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In order to obtain a low-cost, high latent heat and thermostable phase change material with a phase change temperature between 18 and 25 °C as a room temperature phase change material, a novel solid–liquid calcium-based composite named as PCM-Ca of 44.6% CaCl2, 6.9% Ca(NO3)2, 1.2% SrCl2 and 47.3% H2O with a phase change temperature of 21.8 °C and latent heat of 155.5 J g−1 was developed. The determination of thermal performances of PCM-Ca indicated that the thermal conductivities in liquid and solid state are of 0.6429 and 0.8256 W m−1 K−1, and the thermal conductivity in the phase change point is 1.2401 W m−1 K−1; the specific heat capacities at the temperature range of 5.5–26.5 °C and 31.5–38.5 °C were fitted as y = 0.0001x4 − 0.0042x3 + 0.0707x2 − 0.4151x + 3.9526 (r = 0.9999) and y = −0.0001x4 + 0.0208x3 − 1.1155x2 + 26.477x + 231.57 (r = 0.9984), respectively. The stability analysis demonstrated that PCM-Ca is stable at the temperatures less than 130 °C, and no phase separation and the obvious supercooling phenomenon were presented after thirty times cycle use. This material PCM-Ca has a potential for energy storage application.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1607123, U1607129, 21773170), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2016M592827, 2016M592828) and the Yangtze Scholars and Innovative Research Team in Chinese University (Grant No. IRT_17R81).

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    Liping Guo, Xiaoping Yu, Daolin Gao, Yafei Guo, Chi Ma & Tianlong Deng

  2. College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoping Yu & Yafei Guo

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Guo, L., Yu, X., Gao, D. et al. Synthesis and thermal energy storage properties of a calcium-based room temperature phase change material for energy storage. J Therm Anal Calorim 135, 3215–3221 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-018-7610-3

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