Abstract
Moisture adsoprtion can degrade the structural integrity of thermal energy storage devices and can negatively impact the capacity and charging/discharging behaviour. Steady-state and transient experiments are conducted at various operating temperatures to evaluate the moisture affinity of organic phase-change material (PCM) shape stabilized with high-density polyethylene (HDPE).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 30569-30573 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | RSC Advances |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 49 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 6 2021 |
Funding
\u2020 This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This work was supported by the US Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office (DOE/BTO) under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. This research used resources at the Building Technologies Research and Integration Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The authors would like to acknowledge Mr Antonio Bouza, Technology Manager of DOE BTO. Support from the National Science Foundation is also acknowledged under grant no. MRI-1337742 for the purchase of the SEM.