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Thermal Properties of Novel Phase-Change Materials Based on Tamanu and Coconut Oil Encapsulated in Electrospun Fiber Matrices

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  • Evdoxia Paroutoglou

    (Department of Energy Performance, Indoor Environment and Sustainability of Buildings, Aalborg University, BUILD, 2450 København SV, Denmark)

  • Peter Fojan

    (Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark)

  • Leonid Gurevich

    (Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark)

  • Alireza Afshari

    (Department of Energy Performance, Indoor Environment and Sustainability of Buildings, Aalborg University, BUILD, 2450 København SV, Denmark)

Abstract

The accumulation of thermal energy in construction elements during daytime, and its release during a colder night period is an efficient and green way to maintain a comfortable temperature range in buildings and vehicles. One approach to achieving this goal is to store thermal energy as latent heat of the phase transition using the so-called phase-change materials (PCMs). Vegetable oils came recently into focus as cheap, widely available, and environmentally friendly PCMs. In this study, we report the thermal properties of PCMs based on tamanu and coconut oils in three configurations: pure, emulsion, and encapsulated forms. We demonstrate the encapsulation of pure coconut- and tamanu-oil emulsions, and their mixtures and mixtures with commercial PCM paraffins in fiber matrices produced by a coaxial electrospinning technique. Polycaprolactone (PCL) was used as a shell, the PCM emulsion was formed by the studied oils, and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) were used as emulsifiers. The addition of commercially available paraffin RT18 into a 70/30 mixture of coconut and tamanu oil, successfully encapsulated in the core of a PCL shell, demonstrated latent heats of melting and solidification of 63.8 and 57.6 kJ/kg, respectively.

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  • Evdoxia Paroutoglou & Peter Fojan & Leonid Gurevich & Alireza Afshari, 2022. "Thermal Properties of Novel Phase-Change Materials Based on Tamanu and Coconut Oil Encapsulated in Electrospun Fiber Matrices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-20, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:12:p:7432-:d:841521
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    1. Evdoxia Paroutoglou & Peter Fojan & Leonid Gurevich & Göran Hultmark & Alireza Afshari, 2021. "Thermal Analysis of Organic and Nanoencapsulated Electrospun Phase Change Materials," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-15, February.
    2. K.S.S Rao, Yarrapragada & Bala Krishna, B., 2019. "Modeling diesel engine fueled with tamanu oil - Diesel blend by hybridizing neural network with firefly algorithm," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 1200-1212.
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    1. Evdoxia Paroutoglou & Peter Fojan & Leonid Gurevich & Simon Furbo & Jianhua Fan & Marc Medrano & Alireza Afshari, 2022. "A Numerical Parametric Study of a Double-Pipe LHTES Unit with PCM Encapsulated in the Annular Space," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-16, October.

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