Further improvement of the synthesis of silica gel and CaCl2 composites: Enhancement of energy storage density and stability over cycles for solar heat storage coupled with space heating applications

MgSO4·7H2O filled macro cellular foams: An innovative composite sorbent for thermo-chemical energy storage applications for solar buildings

“…Posern et al (Posern and Kaps, 2010) used wet impregnation technique on a mixture of MgSO 4 and MgCl 2 in attapulgite matrices. Several studies on composites CaCl 2 are reported: investigated matrix and synthesis method include impregnation on iron silicate (Ristić and Henninger, 2014) and bentonite (Kerskes et al, 2010), impregnation in mesoporous silica gel (Courbon et al, 2017;Zhu et al, 2006) and synthesis in silica gel with the sol-gel method (Mrowiec-Białoń et al, 1997). Jabbari-Hichri et al (Jabbari-Hichri et al, 2017) studied CaCl 2 with three different matrices: silica gel, alumina and bentonite showing that the best performance in terms of stored/released heat and water sorption capacity was obtained with the silica gel impregnated composite.…”

Combined Solar Thermochemical Solid/Gas Energy Storage Process for Domestic Thermal Applications: Analysis of Global Performance

“…The material used for this study was the salt-in-silica composite material with confined salt of calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ), synthesized by multi-steps incipient wetness impregnation method. This material was recently developed at the Research Institute for Energy (University of Mons, Belgium) aiming at the improvement of the intrinsic energy storage density and the cycling stability in connection with the building heating applications [35]. The developed synthesis protocol allowed the salt content of 43 wt.% to be reached inside the silica gel (Davisil®, grade 62, from Grace).…”

“…The CaCl 2 salt was provided by Solvay in form of the anhydrous 94% purity Caso®granules. The full details about the developed composite material, the synthesis protocol and the characterization methods are available in [35,36].…”

Succinct Review on State-of-art Carbon-based Phase Change Material for Solar Thermal Storage Applications

“…The summary of the classifications of the PCM was shown in Figure 3. The materials for latent heat storage highlighted in the figure had been used for solar TES applications by several scientists [21], [22]. They are all essential materials for LHS-TES because they have been known to store up to between 5 and 14 times more heat per unit volume than SSMs such as water, masonry or rocks [23].…”