• 文献标题:   Copper foam effectively improves the thermal performance of graphene-aerogel composite phase-change materials for thermal storage
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PAN CY, HE P, WU J, CHEN NC, WEI J, XU TH, SHI EQ, WANG AF, JIA HD
  • 作者关键词:   graphene aerogel, pcm, copper foam, thermal propertie, heat storage
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
  • ISSN:   2352-152X EI 2352-1538
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  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.est.2022.104485 EA MAR 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Phase-change heat-storage technology is capable of solving problems associated with the mismatch between the supply and demand of heat energy. In this work, meso-erythritol/graphene-aerogel (mE/GA) and meso-erythritol/ graphene-aerogel/copper-foam (mE/GA/CF) composite phase-change materials (PCMs) were prepared by self reduction and vacuum-impregnation methods. Both experimental and simulation data show that, compared to mE/GA, the composite PCM augmented with CF more-effectively encapsulates the graphene-aerogel composite phase-change material (GACPCM), improving its shape stability and thermal properties, including its thermal stability, subcooling performance, enthalpy, and thermal conductivity. mE/GA/CF exhibits a thermal conductivity of 2.705 W m-1 K-1, which is nearly 13-times that of a common graphene-aerogel thermal-storage unit (GATSU), thus improving the usability of GATSU in the energy-conversion and storage field.