Preparation and performance analysis of metal foam composite phase change material

Qiang Sheng; Yuming Xing; Ze Wang

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2013.10.011

Preparation and performance analysis of metal foam composite phase change material

Qiang Sheng^*
, Yuming Xing
, Ze Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Due to the adsorption performance of porous metal foam structure, a salt hydrate/metal foam composite phase change materiall (PCM) was prepared by using barium hydroxide octahydrate (Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O) as latent heat storage PCM and copper foams as supporting matrix. The thermal properties of Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O were measured by differential scanning calorimetry after a number of repeated thermal cycles. As the number of thermal cycles increases, the phase change temperature of Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O is almost constant and the latent heat of fusion decreases slightly, which implies that Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O has a good thermal stability. An experimental setup was built to study the heat transfer performance of Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O with/without copper foams. The results show that the high porosity metal foam not only enhances the heat transfer rate of Ba(OH)₂·8H₂O within thermal storage units, but also reduces the supercooling of PCM effectively. The supercooling of salt hydrates can be improved significantly by using larger pores per inch (PPI) metal foams.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3565-3570
Number of pages	6
Journal	Huagong Xuebao/CIESC Journal
Volume	64
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2013.10.011
State	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

Copper foams
Heat transfer
Phase change material
Salt hydrate
Thermal cycling

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