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Antarcticite: A Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage––Experiments and Simulation

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Proceedings of the 11th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM)

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Antarcticite, CaCl2 · 6H2O, is an ideal phase change material (PCM) due to its high-energy storage density and good thermal conductivity. In this chapter, supercooling and subsequent solidification behavior of antarcticite are studied based on the cooling curve method and DSC measurement. The results show that the minor SrCl2 · 6H2O as the nucleator and carboxymethyl cellulose as the thickening agent could significantly reduce supercooling and partly restrain the phase separation. Moreover, we incorporated antarcticite as PCM into building envelopes in four different cases, and the simulation of the heat transfer processes showed that the temperature fluctuation could be reduced to about 2 °C in the best case.

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This work is financially supported by Beijing Nature Science Foundation (2132024).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, MOE, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaobin Gu, Jingjing Niu & Shan Qin

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Gu, X., Niu, J., Qin, S. (2015). Antarcticite: A Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage––Experiments and Simulation. In: Dong, F. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM). Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13948-7_14

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