Study on preparation, structure and thermal energy storage property of capric–palmitic acidattapulgite composite phase change materials.pdf

Applied Energy 88 (2011) 3125–3132 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevi /locat e/apenergy Study on preparation, structure and thermal energy storage property of capric–palmitic acid/attapulgite composite phase change materials Min Li a,b,⇑, Zhishen Wu b, Hongtao Kao c aJiangsu Key Laboratory for Construction Materials, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China b International Institute for Urban System Engineering, Southeast University, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China c Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Fatty acid phase change materials (PCMs) have some advantages such as less corrosivity, no separation of Received 16 November 2010 subcooling phase and low price. In this paper, capric acid and palmitic acid are composited according to a Received in revised form 16 February 2011 certain mass ratio to prepare binary fatty acid. Capric–palmitic acid are absorbed into attapulgite by vac- Accepted 22 February 2011 uum method to prepare capric–palmitic acid/attapulgite composite PCMs. Analysis methods such as dif- Available online 24 March 2011 ferential scanning analysis (DSC), scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and specific surface analysis (BET method) are used to test the thermal properties, structure and compo- Keywords: