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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 282, 2019
4th Central European Symposium on Building Physics (CESBP 2019)
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Article Number | 02033 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Regular Papers | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201928202033 | |
Published online | 06 September 2019 |
Thermal conductivity of aerated concrete (AC) composites containing micro-encapsulated phase change materials
1 Institute of Thermal Science and Power Systems, School of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
2 State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
3 Institute of Building Technology, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People’s Republic of China
* Corresponding author: yuzitao@zju.edu.cn
Aerated concrete (AC) was incorporated with micro-encapsulated phase change materials (PCMs) to form a novel PCM-composite AC with improved thermal storage capacity. RT25 paraffin was selected as the PCM and the composite materials were prepared by adding micro-encapsulated paraffin as an ingredient at various loadings. The effective thermal conductivity of the composite samples was measured at both 17 ºC and 35 ºC, while the paraffin was in solid and liquid phases, respectively. The volumetric heat capacity of the composites were also measured. Results showed that both the thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity increase upon adding the micro-encapsulated paraffin. However, they were found to decrease when further increase the paraffin loading. The maximum thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity were enhanced by approximately 35% and 30% when the paraffin loadings were 1% wt. and 3% wt., respectively. Since the increase of thermal conductivity leads to the deterioration of the thermal insulation performance, the composite samples with 3% wt. micro-encapsulated paraffin with lower thermal conductivity but the highest volumetric heat capacity was exhibited to be more appropriate.
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