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Vladimir Kulish1, Navid Aslfattahi2, Michal Schmirler2
1Department of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. vladimir.kulish@fs.cvut.cz.
Abstract:
The secret to the successful and widespread deployment of solar energy for thermal applications is effective and affordable heat storage. The ability to provide a high energy storage density and the capacity to store heat at a constant temperature corresponding to the phase transition temperature of the heat storage material (phase-change material or PCM) make latent heat storage one of the most alluring methods of heat storage. Today, it can be challenging to obtain all the published data on PCM qualities, including relevant non-thermodynamic properties in addition to thermodynamic ones. The developed new PCM library contains various types of PCMs which possess broad range of operation temperatures. This new library consists of 500 substances along with nine associated properties such as phase change temperature, solidification temperature, maximum operation temperature, density, latent heat and specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, cycleability and ignition temperature. Furthermore, a new PCM selection method, based on calculating the Rényi entropy for a given set of selection criteria, has been proposed. The newly developed selection method requires no subjective judgements. The idea of the method is inspired by earlier applications of fractal analysis methods in many areas of research.
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