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PCM and PCM Slurries and Their Application in Solar Systems

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Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation

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PCM/MPCM and their slurries, acting as thermal storage, heat transfer enhancement, and temperature constancy medium, have drawn extensive concerns. Their basic concepts, classification, physical and chemical properties, MPCM fabrications, and applications in solar systems were presented in this chapter. PCMs can be divided into solid–solid, solid–liquid, solid–gas and liquid–gas types. MPCM is composed of PCM as core and a polymer or inorganic material as shell to maintain the shape and prevent PCM from leakage during the phase change process. There are several processes that can be applied to produce microcapsules. Depending on the nature of the processes, they are classified into physical, physical–chemical, and chemical processes. Commercially available PCM and MPCM properties are also dedicatedly described in this chapter. Afterward, compilation of PCM emulsion and MPCM slurries was provided in terms of their main characteristics. Thereafter, a portfolio of suppressing the instability of MPCM slurries, a near-zero density difference, combining the appropriate setup of the other parameters involving surfactant type, its concentration, pH value, was proposed based on a series of experimental works. Finally, some applications of PCMs and its slurries in solar systems, acting as a thermal storage, heat transfer enhancement or temperature constancy medium, were presented in this chapter.

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  1. College of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Zhongzhu Qiu

  2. College of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Peng Li

  3. School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China

    Zhangyuan Wang

  4. Green Building & Low-carbon Technology Development Center, Atlantic House, Imperial Way, Reading, RG2 0TD, UK

    Han Zhao

  5. School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

    Xudong Zhao

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Qiu, Z., Li, P., Wang, Z., Zhao, H., Zhao, X. (2019). PCM and PCM Slurries and Their Application in Solar Systems. In: Zhao, X., Ma, X. (eds) Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation . Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_4

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