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Experimental study of thermal performance on the adsorption of stearic acid into different morphology sepiolite

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The different MSEP/SA composite phase change materials were prepared by direct impregnation method with SEP-v, SEP-p, SEP-f as supporting material. The thermal stability of the composite phase change materials was analyzed and the differences in the thermal properties and thermal reliability were compared, and provided reference for the study of different SEP to adsorb stearic acid (SA). The results indicated that there is no chemical reaction during the preparation of the composite PCMs. SEP-f has great advantages as a supporting material and its composite (65SEP-f/SA) has a good leak-proof performance with remaining mass ratio is above 99% for leakage test of 50 h. Besides, melting and freezing latent heat of three composite PCMs are similar, For 65SEP-f/SA, the melting latent heat is 76.10 J g−1 corresponds to the phase change temperature of 344.15 K and the freezing latent heat is 75.59 J g−1 corresponds to the phase change temperature of 336.85 K. The 65SEP-f/SA has the highest thermal conductivity of 0.9460 W m−1 K−1. It can be conducted that 65SEP-f/SA have great application potential in the field for low temperature phase change energy storage.

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Abbreviations

PCMs:

Phase change materials

SEP:

Sepiolite

MSEP:

Modified sepiolite, including SEP-v, SEP-f, SEP-p

SEP-v:

Modified sepiolite velvet

SEP-f:

Modified sepiolite fiber

SEP-p:

Modified sepiolite powder

SA:

Stearic acid

LA:

Lauric acid

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (No. 19C1767), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51906094), the Public Welfare Technological Research Program of Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province (No. LGG18E060003) and the Research Program of Science and Technology Bureau of Lishui City (No. 2017RC03).

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  1. Department of Process Equipment and Control Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, People’s Republic of China

    Wen-Tao Yan & Wei-Biao Ye

  2. School of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, 545006, People’s Republic of China

    Juan Du & Yuxiang Hong

  3. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lishui University, Lishui, 323000, People’s Republic of China

    Juan Du & Yuxiang Hong

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Appendices

Appendix 1

Standard variance of experimental data for leakage test.

The standard deviations of SA/SEP-f composite PCMs (%).

SEP-f mass fraction

Leakage time

0 h

0.5 h

1 h

1.5 h

2 h

26 h

50 h

65%

0

0.02862

0.01286

0.00819

0.00850

0.09851

0.06526

60%

0

0.01436

0.02196

0.03041

0.00379

0.05125

0.05501

55%

0

0.07927

0.12156

0.11049

0.17064

0.19766

0.14319

50%

0

0.11641

0.10162

0.11756

0.11750

0.31925

0.25057

45%

0

0.25451

0.16774

0.20801

0.19260

0.16445

0.02740

40%

0

0.50656

0.28343

0.52073

0.43015

0.08517

0.03775

35%

0

0.21958

0.31672

0.30867

0.21909

0.13890

0.18993

The standard deviation of SA/SEP-v composite PCMs (%).

SEP-v mass fraction

Leakage time

0 h

0.5 h

1 h

1.5 h

2 h

26 h

50 h

65%

0

0.12304

0.17678

0.22486

0.21284

0.57841

0.54853

60%

0

0.2885

0.32598

0.35072

0.34365

0.51902

0.35359

55%

0

0.20648

0.16971

0.15203

0.14213

0.20294

0.33290

50%

0

0.04243

0.02758

0.10182

0.14001

0.00707

0.54644

45%

0

0.21850

0.47942

0.65832

0.76226

0.45113

0.82262

40%

0

0.61518

1.00692

1.29047

1.55776

1.31946

1.80863

35%

0

1.29188

1.94808

2.47558

2.58943

1.25582

2.36270

The standard deviation of SA/SEP-p composite PCMs (%).

SEP-p mass fraction

Leakage time

0 h

0.5 h

1 h

1.5 h

2 h

26 h

50 h

65%

0

0.27468

0.15436

0.17534

0.26871

0.48157

0.69159

60%

0

0.04532

0.28870

0.41352

0.55783

0.86037

0.47553

55%

0

0.16897

0.14528

0.22368

0.56482

0.66974

1.28754

50%

0

0.46376

0.31852

0.35466

0.24454

0.90376

0.42108

45%

0

0.58943

0.87416

0.33938

0.59874

1.22348

0.57466

40%

0

1.75468

0.94318

1.80527

1.23619

1.56187

2.13887

35%

0

1.07459

1.37468

0.94558

1.52993

2.43327

1.94238

Appendix 2

The instrument errors.

  1. 1.

    Blast drying box:

    The temperature error: ± 1 °C;

  2. 2.

    Scanning electron microscopy (S4800):

    Electronic image movement: ± 12 µm;

  3. 3.

    XRD (D8 ADVANCE DAVINCI):

    Precision of Angle: ± 0.0001;

  4. 4.

    DSC (DSC214):

    Temperature repeatability: ± 0.01 °C (Standard metal);

    Enthalpy sensitivity: 0.1 µW;

    Enthalpy precision: ± 0.05% (Standard metal);

  5. 5.

    TGA (NETZSCH5, TGA 8000-Spectrum two-clarus SQ8T):

    Thermal drift: < 10 µg;

    Weighing accuracy: 10 ppm;

  6. 6.

    Thermal conductivity tester (TPS 2500 S):

    Measurement error: < 3%;

    Thermal diffusion coefficient: < 5%;

    Volumetric specific heat: < 7%.

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Yan, WT., Du, J., Ye, WB. et al. Experimental study of thermal performance on the adsorption of stearic acid into different morphology sepiolite. J Therm Anal Calorim 147, 4523–4532 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-10861-9

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