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An experimental study on the stability and reliability of the thermal properties of barium hydroxide octahydrate as a phase change material Jing Li, Zhongliang Liu(, Chongfang Ma The Key Laboratory of Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation of the Education Ministry, China The Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, China Telephone: 010 Email: liuzhl@bjpu.edu.cn Abstract Hydrated salts are attractive materials for use in thermal energy storage. However, the supercooling and phase segregation limit their practical applications. This article exploits the possibility of barium hydroxide octahydrate as a PCM and reports the experimental results of its thermal stability and reliability. The material has a very large volumetric storage density of about 620J/cc. The results show that barium hydroxide octahydrate does not exhibit any supercooling and phase segregation after more than 500 thermal cycles. No obvious changes in the melting temperatures and the fusion heat of barium hydroxide octahydrate were observed with increasing number of thermal cycles. Therefore the material may be an important phase change material for thermal energy storage. Keywords: Thermal energy storage; PCMs; thermal reliability; hydrated salts; barium hydroxide octahydrate; DSC Introduction Latent heat thermal energy storage is a particularly attractive technique, and there have been increasing interests in using this essential technique for thermal applications such as heating, hot water, air conditioning and so on. It provides higher energy storage density and has the capacity to store heat as latent heat of fusion at a constant temperature corresponding to the phase transition temperature of phase change materials (PCMs). For example, in the case of water, 80 times as much energy is required to melt 1 kg of ice as to raise the temperature of 1