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Attapulgite: a promising natural mineral as carrier material for fatty acids phase change material

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The pristine attapulgite (Atta) was pretreated by thermal and acid activation process in order to improve the loading capacity of phase change material (PCM). A series of pretreated Atta-based composite PCM was prepared combined with different kind of fatty acids. The XRD, FT-IR and XRF results shown that the pretreated process increased the purity of Atta as well as the SEM micrographs and BET results indicated that the porosity of Atta slightly increased after pretreating. What`s more, XRD and FT-IR results of the composites PCMs shown good chemical compatibility. DSC results indicated that the composite PCMs of AH-Atta/Lauric acid (LA), AH-Atta/Palmitic acid (SA) and AH-Atta/Docosanoic acid (DA) melted at 42.8 °C, 1.4 °C and 75.2 °C with the latent heat of 94.6 J g−1, 107.5 J g−1 and 84.6 J g−1 at the maximum loading of 51.0%, 50.8% and 51.3%, respectively. In addition, TGA results and 200 thermal cycles test results proved the good thermal stability and reliability of the samples. Based all above results, the prepared composite PCMs have good potential application in energy conservation buildings at different function temperature.

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This work is financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC1901500).

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    Ruilong Wen

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Utilization of Nonmetallic Minerals and Solid Wastes, National Laboratory of Mineral Materials, School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China

    Ruilong Wen, Yunfei Xu, Youguo Xu, Zhenhua Sun, Liangpei Zhang, Jiaxin Qiao, Xiaowen Wu, Xin Min & Zhaohui Huang

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Wen, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y. et al. Attapulgite: a promising natural mineral as carrier material for fatty acids phase change material. J Therm Anal Calorim 147, 7203–7212 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-11046-0

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