Development and testing of subambient melt temperature nano-enhanced phase change materials

Author

Warzoha, Ronald ; Tang, Xudong ; Fleischer, Amy S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

May 30 2012-June 1 2012

Firstpage

840

Lastpage

844

Abstract

This work presents the results of an effort to create and thermally characterize sub-ambient phase change materials enhanced with graphite nanofibers. Several samples were created using a paraffin based phase change material with 10% by weight suspended graphite nanofibers. This material has a melting point of 21°C, slightly below standard ambient conditions (23°C). The thermal properties of the samples were experimentally characterized. This paper presents the process used for creation of the materials and the results of the thermal characterization.

Keywords

fibre reinforced composites; graphite; heat of fusion; latent heat; materials preparation; melting point; nanocomposites; organic compounds; phase change materials; nanoenhanced phase change materials; paraffin based phase change material; subambient melt temperature phase change materials; suspended graphite nanofibers; temperature 21 degC; thermal characterisation; Conductivity; Electronic packaging thermal management; Heating; Phase change materials; Temperature measurement; Thermal conductivity; carbon foam; energy storage; paraffin; phase change materials; thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 2012 13th IEEE Intersociety Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1087-9870

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9533-7

Electronic_ISBN

1087-9870

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231514

Filename

6231514