An overview of phase change material slurries: MPCS and CHS

By Peng Zhang, Zhiwei Ma, Ruzhu Wang. 2010

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Phase change material slurries (PCS) can serve as both the heat transfer fluids and energy storage media, consequently, they are potentially applicable to the thermal systems, e.g., the secondary refrigeration and air conditioning loops, so as to improve the energy efficiency and to reduce the quantity of refrigerant used in the system. The design of the system using PCS needs the quantitative information about the thermal and fluidic behaviors of PCS. Here we provide an overview of the characteristics of two big groups of PCS, namely microencapsulated phase change material slurry (MPCS) and semi-clathrate hydrate slurry (CHS). The focuses are placed on the flow and heat transfer features and thermal properties, such as specific heat, viscosity and thermal conductivity. The suitable materials for making PCS are also discussed and compared based on the available data in the literature, and some examples of the applications of PCS are summarized as well.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering

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Phase change materials and thermal energy storage for buildings (2015, methodology): “Thus can be achieved using a direct inclusion in the wall [22], by impregnation in a porous material as gypsum [23], by using microencapsulation techniques [24], using a shapestabilization [25] or slurries of PCM suspended on a thermal fluid [26].”
A review on heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics of nano/microencapsulated phase change slurry (N/MPCS) in mini/microchannel heat sinks (2018, background): “Further, most of the N/MPCS review articles [21-29] 20 concern the thermophysical properties, manufacturing methods and applications.”
Investigation of thermal management for lithium-ion pouch battery module based on phase change slurry and mini channel cooling plate (2019, background): “The effective thermal co nductivity can be written as follows ([38]):”
Temperature-dependent thermal properties of solid/liquid phase change even-numbered n-alkanes: n-Hexadecane, n-octadecane and n-eicosane (2015, unknown): “a The data reported in [23,24] were obtained from DSC analysis while the other reported data in [17,49–51] no specific technique was mentioned.”
A review of microencapsulation methods of phase change materials (PCMs) as a thermal energy storage (TES) medium (2014, background): “[16] to improve the thermal conductivity of MPCS.”