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Carbon Foam Infused with Pentaglycerine for Thermal Energy Storage Applications

Johnson, Douglas James
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304086567

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2011, Master of Science (M.S.), University of Dayton, Aerospace Engineering.
A thermal energy storage device that uses pentaglycerine as a phase change material was developed. This solid-state phase change material was embedded in a carbon foam thermal conduction enhancer. This device and others identically constructed but using a paraffin phase change material were tested by imposing different input fluxes, 2.3 or 6.0 W/cm2 on one end, while the opposite end was either insulated or actively cooled with an output flux that varied from 3.1 to 5.4 W/cm2. The resulting temperature distributions within the devices were recorded at five locations; this information was used to determine the specific energy storage capacity, heating rate and the cycling performance of each device. It was found that the pentaglycerine/foam combination is capable of a specific storage capacity of 67 J/g; it demonstrated a storage capacity 174% of the paraffin/foam device, by eliminating the volume change and leakage problems associated with solid-liquid phase change materials.
Jamie S. Ervin, PhD (Advisor)
Steven Zabarnick, PhD (Committee Member)
Paul J. Kreitzer, PhD (Committee Member)
104 p.
Aerospace Engineering; Aerospace Materials; Engineering; Materials Science
carbon foam; pentaglycerine; solid-solid; phase change; thermal energy storage

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  • Johnson, D. J. (2011). Carbon Foam Infused with Pentaglycerine for Thermal Energy Storage Applications [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304086567

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Douglas. Carbon Foam Infused with Pentaglycerine for Thermal Energy Storage Applications. 2011. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304086567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Douglas. "Carbon Foam Infused with Pentaglycerine for Thermal Energy Storage Applications." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1304086567

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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