Thermal properties and thermal reliability of eutectic mixtures of some fatty acids as latent heat storage materials     
Yazarlar (3)
Ahmet Sarı
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Hayati SARI Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Adem ÖNAL Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Energy Conversion and Management
Dergi ISSN 0196-8904 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Dergi Grubu Q4
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 02-2004
Cilt No 45
Sayı 3
Sayfalar 365 / 376
DOI Numarası 10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00154-7
Makale Linki http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0196890403001547
Özet
The present study deals with two subjects. The first one is to determine the thermal properties of lauric acid (LA)-stearic acid (SA), myristic acid (MA)-palmitic acid (PA) and palmitic acid (PA)-stearic acid (SA) eutectic mixtures as latent heat storage material. The properties were measured by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis technique. The second one is to study the thermal reliability of these materials in view of the change in their melting temperatures and latent heats of fusion with respect to repeated thermal cycles. For this aim, the eutectic mixtures were subjected to 360 repeated melt/freeze cycles, and their thermal properties were measured after 0, 90,180 and 360 thermal cycles by the technique of DSC analysis. The DSC thermal analysis results show that the binary systems of LA-SA in the ratio of 75.5:24.5 wt.%, MA-PA in the ratio of 58:42 wt.% and PA-SA in the ratio of 64.2:35.8 wt.% form eutectic mixtures with melting temperatures of 37.0, 42.60 and 52.30 °C and with latent heats of fusion of 182.7, 169.7 and 181.7 Jg-1, respectively. These thermal properties make them possible for heat storage in passive solar heating applications with respect to climate conditions. The accelerated thermal cycle tests indicate that the changes in the melting temperatures and latent heats of fusion of the studied eutectic mixtures are not regular with increasing number of thermal cycles. However, these materials, latent heat energy storage materials, have good thermal reliability in terms of the change in their thermal properties with respect to thermal cycling for about a one year utility period. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Eutectic mixture of fatty acids | Phase change material | Technique of DSC thermal analysis | Thermal cycling | Thermal property | Thermal reliability