Abstract
Ice storage is currently the dominant cooling energy storage method. To more effectively utilize natural, renewable cooling sources, such as evaporative cooling and sky-radiative cooling, diurnal storage media operated on a daily basis at the temperate range between 10 and 20 °C are the most desirable. This paper will present the experimental investigation of microencapsulated paraffin slurry as cooling storage media for building cooling applications. The water slurry of microencapsulated n-hexadecane with a melting temperature of 18 °C was cooled to 5 °C and heated to 25 °C cyclically in a storage tank of 230 l, and it was observed that full latent heat storage can only be realized at around 7 °C due to supercooling, and the effective cooling storage capacity at the cooling temperature range between 5 and 18 °C are obtained, which can be used to realistically estimate cooling storage capacity with various natural cooling schemes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1038-1048 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2010 |
Keywords
- Effective latent heat
- Experimental investigation
- MPCM slurry
- Supercooling
- Thermal storage capacity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films
