Characterization of Fatty Acids as Biobased Organic Materials for Latent Heat Storage
Author/s
Duquesne, Marie; Mailhé, Clément; Doppiu, Stefania; Dauvergne, Jean-Luc; Santos-Moreno, Sergio; [et al.]Date
2021-08-20Keywords
thermal energy storage
biobased phase change materials
fatty acids
thermophysical characterization
Abstract
This work aims to characterize phase change materials (PCM) for thermal energy storage in buildings (thermal comfort). Fatty acids, biobased organic PCM, are attractive candidates for integration into active or passive storage systems for targeted application. Three pure fatty acids (capric, myristic and palmitic acids) and two eutectic mixtures (capric-myristic and capric-palmitic acids) are studied in this paper. Although the main storage properties of pure fatty acids have already been investigated and reported in the literature, the information available on the eutectic mixtures is very limited (only melting temperature and enthalpy). This paper presents a complete experimental characterization of these pure and mixed fatty acids, including measurements of their main thermophysical properties (melting temperature and enthalpy, specific heats and densities in solid and liquid states, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity as well as viscosity) and the properties of interest regarding ...
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