Thermal Characteristics of Phase Change Materials for Waste Heat Recovery System

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Thermal characteristics of phase change materials (PCMs) were investigated experimentally to construct a fundamental database of thermal storage systems for waste heat recovery in this study. Sodium acetate trihydrate and D-mannitol which have relatively high latent heats were selected as PCMs. The heat inputs from a cartridge heater were varied from 5 to 15 W in the experiment. As a result, thermal stratification appeared in the vertical direction in the case of sodium acetate trihydrate. On the other hand, the temperature distribution of D-mannitol was not stratified because of the weaker natural convection than the case of sodium acetate trihydrate. Also, the solidification characteristics were investigated in this study. It was clarified that the degree of super cooling of D-mannitol was lower than that of sodium acetate trihydate. In addition, the thermal analyses of the chosen PCMs were conducted by thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA). Results of DTA show that the down peak of D-Mannitol was lower than that of sodium acetate trihydrate. Furthermore, the TG of D-Mannitol did not decrease at temperatures of 298.15 K to 458.15K.