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Study on energy storage properties of Metal-organic frameworks nanofluids (UIO-67/Water and UIO-67/Methanol) by an experimental and theoretical method

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Porous nanomaterials have broad application aspects in energy storage and conversion. In this paper, the energy storage characteristics of two kinds of Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) nanofluids were studied through experiments and molecular simulation (MS). Firstly, UIO-67/water and UIO-67/methanol nanofluids were prepared, the structural characteristics of UIO-67 were studied, and the results showed that the Metal-organic Frameworks of UIO-67 is stable under 770 K. Then, the energy storage capacity of the two kinds of nanofluids was studied experimentally. The results indicated that the energy storage capacity of UIO-67/water nanofluids decreased with 0.83% and 3.60% mass fractions nanoparticles at 288 K-360 K. However, that of UIO-67/methanol nanofluids containing 1.60% and 5.28% mass fractions nanoparticles showed an enhancement trend at 250 K-330 K. Meanwhile, the changes of energy storage capacity are proportional to the mass fraction of UIO-67 nanoparticles. Finally, about the energy storage capacities of UIO-67/water and UIO-67/methanol nanofluids, the results retrieved by molecular simulation are in good agreement with the experimental ones, which provides an explanation for the inconsistency of the energy storage characteristics of the two kinds of nanofluids. The research method in this paper provided a reference for studying the thermophysical properties of nanofluids mixed with porous materials, and the results should have some practical interest.

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Abbreviations

C :

Specific heat capacity (kJ·kg-1·K-1)

E :

Energy

H :

Enthalpy (kJ·kg-1)

M :

Quality (mg)

T :

Temperature (K)

CDCC:

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center

COMPASS:

Condensed-phase optimized molecular potentials for atomistic simulation studies

DMF:

Dimethyl formamide

DSC:

Differential Scanning Calorimetry

MS:

Molecular Simulation

GCMC:

Grand Canonical Monte Carlo

H2BPDC:

Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate acid

[HMIM]BF4:

1-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate

MOFs:

Metal-organic Frameworks

MOHCs:

Metal-organic heat carrier nanofluids

NIST:

National Institute of Standards and Technology

TGA:

Thermogravimetric Analysis

XRD:

X-ray diffraction

Δ:

Differenc

θ :

Angle

ω :

Mass fraction (%

Bsl:

Baseline

Desorption:

Desorption

Fluid:

Fluid

Nanofluid:

Nanofluid

P:

Pressure

Sam:

Sample

Std:

Standard

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Acknowledgements

This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51707016) and the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Fronter Technology (No.cstc2018jcyjAX0658). The authors would like to acknowledge the colleagues from the New Technology School of Electrical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security for their perspectives and suggestions related to data collection and statistical analysis.

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FY Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Visualization. QW Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition.FW Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition. ZH Software, Validation, Data curation, Writing - review & editing, Project administration.

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Yan, F., Wang, Q., Wang, F. et al. Study on energy storage properties of Metal-organic frameworks nanofluids (UIO-67/Water and UIO-67/Methanol) by an experimental and theoretical method. J Mater Sci 56, 10008–10017 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-05910-5

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