Optimal preparation of PCM/diatomite composites for enhancing thermal properties

Preparation, characterization, and performance study of beeswax/expanded graphite composite as thermal storage material

“…K) and high charging and discharging time during melting and solidification. Many methods have been suggested in the literature to enhance the thermal conductivity of organic PCMs such as addition of high thermal A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t conductivity solid particles including metal chips, nano particles, [32][33][34] altering geometrical structure of heat storage units by addition of fins, [35,36] addition of expanded graphite, [39][40][41] PCM impregnation [42,43]. A critical review by Zhang et al 2016 [44] also revealed that the composite PCMs can effectively improve the performance of thermal storage systems through enhancement of thermal conductivity of PCMs.…”

Diatomite: A promising natural candidate as carrier material for low, middle and high temperature phase change material

“…The comparative studies of thermal properties of the prepared PEG/diatomite, LiNO 3 /diatomite, and Na 2 SO 4 /diatomite fs-PCMs with that of diatomite-supported PCMs in the literature [15][16][17]19,27,36,[39][40][41] are summarized in Table 3. From Table 3, we can see that the PCMs immersed in these diatomite-supported composites are almost low-temperature PCMs.…”

Preparation of Puzzolana Active Two Component Composite for Latent Heat Storage

“…Jeong at al. [28] used for preparation of PCM on the diatomite base n-hexadecane, n-octadecane and paraffin. They obtained phase temperatures 23.7, 31.3 and 54.4°C respectively with corresponding phase change latent heat of 118.0, 112.9 and 59.7 J•g -1 .…”