WO1994004630A1 - Phase change material formulations for low temperature heat storage applications - Google Patents
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- This invention concerns phase change materials for use in heat storage systems. More particularly, it concerns phase change material formulations based on (i) Glauber's salt (sodium sulphate decahydrate - Na 2 SO 4 .10H 2 O), and (ii) sodium acetate trihydrate (CH 3 C0 2 Na.3H 2 0).
- the former have a solid/liquid transition temperature in the range of from 5°C to 15°C.
- the latter have a solid/liquid transition temperature in the range of from 50 ⁇ C to 58°C.
- Glauber's salt sodium sulphate decahydrate (Na 2 S0 4 .10H 2 O), which has a phase change temperature of about 32°C.
- Glauber's salt has two features which make it attractive for commercial heat storage systems, namely, it has a high latent heat of fusion (about 250 kJ/kg) and a low cost.
- Glauber's salt for heat storage purposes was first proposed (it is believed) by Maria Telkes in 1954 in the specification of her US patent No 2,677,664. Subsequently, a substantial amount of theoretical and experimental work was undertaken in order to produce improved formulations of high latent heat capacity, based on sodium sulphate decahydrate. Examples of such work are reported in the papers by
- Stein's own invention which allegedly avoids the known problems associated with the use of sodium sulphate decahydrate as a phase change material, involved the use of a panel-like energy storage str sture with horizontal dividers, preferably made from metal wool.
- sodium sulphate decahydrate mixtures should no longer be considered as high quality storage materials for heating and cooling of buildings.
- Phase change material formulations based on calcium chloride hexahydrate are particularly useful for the control of the temperature within structures such as greenhouses (glasshouses) and electronic equipment shelters, which should not significantly exceed about 30°C.
- structures such as greenhouses (glasshouses) and electronic equipment shelters, which should not significantly exceed about 30°C.
- phase change materials which function effectively at temperatures which are considerablys lower, or higher, than 30°C, would be useful for other applications.
- Formulations for phase change materials which have a solid to liquid transition temperature in the range of from 5°C to 15°C have been proposed. Such formulations have been based on organic compounds such as paraffins and olefins, clathrate and semi-clathrate hydrates, and also sodium sulphate decahydrate containing additives which lower its melting point. The organic materials tried were all unsatisfactory, for one or more reasons (the flammability of the material being a problem in some instances). The clathrate and semi-clathrate hydrates have solid to liquid transition temperatures in the desired region, but a heterogeneous nucleating agent which ensures an essentially constant phase change temperature after repeated freeze/melt cycles has yet to be discovered. And, as noted above, there has been very little success with phase change materials based on sodium sulphate decahydrate, at any phase change temperature.
- sodium acetate trihydrate has been known as a potentially useful material for more than a decade.
- This material is a relatively low cost material which has a high latent heat of fusion (about 260 kJ/kg, or 340 kJ/litre) and a solid/liquid transition temperature of about 58 ⁇ C.
- a high latent heat of fusion about 260 kJ/kg, or 340 kJ/litre
- a solid/liquid transition temperature of about 58 ⁇ C.
- One of the first nucleators of crystallisation that was used in an attem to avoid the problem of incongruent melting of sodium acetate trihydrate was sodium carbonate decahydrate (Na 2 CO 3 .10H 2 O).
- nucleators reported to be effective in ensuring congruent melting of CH 3 C0 2 Na.3H 2 0 are 2-4 dinitrobenzoic acid and gum arable. Even if these chemicals do produce, with sodium acetate trihydrate, a phase change material with long term congruent melting, the cost of producing the formulations would mean that they are uneconomic for use in space heating (for example, in greenhouse heating), unless the dosages of the additives are minimal.
- nucleating catalysts for sodium acetate trihydrate are anhydrous disodium hydrogen phosphate and tetrasodium pyrophosphate decahydrate. These nucleators are referred to by (a) T Wada and R Yamamoto, in their paper entitled “Studies on salt hydrates for latent heat storage. 1. Crystal nucleation of sodium acetate trihydrate catalyzed by tetrasodium pyrophosphate decahydrate", which was published in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. Volume 55, page 3603, 1982;
- the first of these objectives is achieved by providing a novel formulation based upon Glauber's salt, which includes compounds that (i) reduce the solid/liquid transition temperature to a temperature in the range of from 5°C to 15°C, and (ii) nucleate the crystallisation of the sodium sulphate decahydrate.
- a compound which effectively encapsulates the active formulation in an essentially solid matrix to prevent incongruent melting is added.
- the first aspect of the present invention provides a phase change material having a formulation such that the material changes from a solid phase to a liquid phase at a temperature in the range of from 5 ⁇ C to 15 ⁇ C, said formulation comprising an intimate mixture of sodium sulphate decahydrate, borax (sodium tetraborate decahydrate), fumed silica, ammonium chloride, potassium chloride, and water in excess of the stoichiometric quantity included in the hydrates, to form an active formulation, and also calcium sulphate to provide an essentially solid matrix, in the following proportions:
- borax sodium tetraborate decahydrate
- fumed silica from 0.1 to 5.0 units by weight
- phase change material having a formulation based on sodium acetate trihydrate.
- This formulation includes tetrasodium pyrophosphate decahydrate (Na 4 P 2 O 7 .10H 2 O), fumed silica, and water in excess of the stoichiometric quantity required for the hydrates.
- phase change material having a solid to liquid transition temperature of about 58 ⁇ C, which comprises an intimate mixture of sodium acetate trihydrate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate decahydrate, fumed silica, and water in excess of the stoichiometric quantity required for the hydrates, in the following proportions:
- the solid to liquid transition temperature of the formulation of the second aspect of the invention may be lowered by the addition of either urea or lithium acetate dihydrate.
- phase change material formulations of the first and second aspects of the present invention were developed and tested will now be described.
- the present inventors designed and built test facilities for evaluating the performance of phase change materials.
- the most recent version of these test facilities consisted of three water baths, each containing a heater, a cooler, stirrers, four calorimeters and four cells. Samples of phase change materials were placed in the cells and were daily subjected to either two or four heating and cooling cycles, through the expected solid/liquid transition temperature of the formulations. The operation of heaters and coolers, to control the temperatures of the water baths, was automated.
- a Chessell 4500 data acquisition system (incorporating a Chessell 4001 multi-channel recorder) was used to obtain a complete record of the parameters monitored during the experiments.
- the inventors investigated the performance of a wide range of phase change materials. The data obtained from the early formulations tested provided an indication of the most promising phase change material formulations. Further experiments with modified versions of the promising formulations were undertaken so that the most useful formulations could be identified and tested thoroughly.
- the present inventors determined a range of formulations, in both the “low” and “high” solid/liquid transition temperature ranges, which could be cycled through melting and solidification more than 500 times with no apparent change in their properties.
- the formulations which make apparently reliable phase change materials were found to have the following compositions:- Glauber's salt (Na 2 S0 4 .10H 2 0) : 100 units by weight; borax (sodium tetraborate decahydrate - Na 2 B 4 O 7 .10H 2 O) : 0.1 to 5.0 units by weight; fumed sil- * (CAB-O-SIL brand)
- the preferred formulation (having a solid/liquid transition temperature of about 9°C) comprises:
- phase change material formulations which are in accordance with the first aspect of the present invention.
- the effective (long term) phase change materials were found to have formulations based on sodium acetate trihydrate, withe;the addition of tetrasodium pyrophosphate decahydrate, fumed silica, and water in excess of the stoichiometric quantity required for the hydrates in the formulation.
- the most reliable formulations were those in the following range of compositions: sodium acetate trihydrate (CH 3 C0 2 Na.3H 2 0)
- the preferred formulation comprises: sodium acetate trihydrate - 100 units by weight;
- the fumed silica in all of the formulations of the present invention appears to act as a nucleator.
- the quantities of fumed silica that are used would not thicken the liquid phase of the formulations. If the fumed silica is omitted from the formulations based on sodium acetate trihydrate, the liquid/solid transition temperature varies widely and sporadically. The addition of the fumed silica completely avoids this behaviour, and produces a stable and reliable phase change material. Samples of the phase change material formulations of the present invention have been encapsulated and used successfully in trials of the encapsulated materials.
- High-molecular-density polyethylene (HMDPE) tubes with end caps which were subsequently welded to the tubes were first used to encapsulate the new formulations. These tubes have an outside diameter of 40 mm, an inside diameter of 36 mm and a length of 1 metre. These tubes comply with the encapsulation requirements of Telecom Australia for phase change materials for use in equipment shelters.
- HMDPE High-molecular-density polyethylene
- the present invention provides relatively low cost phase change material formulations with solid/liquid transition temperatures of (i) about 9°C, and (ii) about 58°C, which can be used for long-term heat storage applications without the fear of deterioration of performance due to incongruent melting or supercooling.
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