Determination of the enthalpy of PCM as a function of temperature using a heat‐flux DSC—A study of different measurement procedures and their accuracy
By C. Castellón, E. Günther, H. Mehling, S. Hiebler, L. F. Cabeza. 2008
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Thermal energy storage by latent heat allows storing high amounts of energy working in narrow margins of temperature. The use of phase change material (PCM) for the latent heat storage has been studied in different applications and it has been commercialized in containers to transport blood, products sensible to temperature, to decrease their energy demand. The use of PCM in cooling and refrigeration has been attracting a lot of interest lately, but for all applications, the properties of these materials need to be known with sufficient accuracy. Regarding heat storage, it is necessary to know the enthalpy as a function of temperature. The most widely used calorimeter is the heat‐flux differential scanning calorimetry (hf‐DSC). The objective of this study is to investigate different methods for hf‐DSC analysis, namely the dynamic method and the step method, and to test their accuracy in the determination of enthalpy–temperature relationship of PCM. For the dynamic method, a strong influence of heating/cooling rate was observed. For the step method, the resulting enthalpy–temperature relationship is independent of heating/cooling rate. Commercial PCM RT27 was chosen as sample material to avoid subcooling and kinetic effects in the test measurements. The approach introduced in this study can be used to carry out similar investigations for other classes of PCM and/or other DSC instruments. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering
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- Intercomparative tests on phase change materials characterisation with differential scanning calorimeter (2013, methodology): “[19] studied the different methods for heatflux DSC analysis to investigate their accuracy in the determination of enthalpy in function of PCM temperature.”
- Numerical simulation of phase change material composite wallboard in a multi-layered building envelope (2012, methodology): “The measurement was performed with a TA Instruments Q20 DSC. 15 The heat flow values obtained from heating/cooling the PCM sample using the dynamic method are systematically shifted to higher/lower temperatures due to temperature gradients inside the PCM sample (Castellon et al., 2008).”