Paraffin/expanded vermiculite composite phase change material as aggregate for developing lightweight thermal energy storage cement-based composites

Applied Energy

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 358-367

  Xu, Biwan ^a   Ma, Hongyan ^a   Lu, Zeyu ^a   Li, Zongjin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Expanded vermiculite; Lightweight cement based composite; Paraffin; Phase change material; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CEMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT STORAGE; PARAFFINS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CEMENT BASED COMPOSITES; COMPOSITE PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; EXPANDED VERMICULITE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INTERLAYER SPACES; LIGHTWEIGHT CEMENT; VACUUM IMPREGNATION METHOD;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

AGGREGATE; AIR TEMPERATURE; BULK DENSITY; CEMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL POWER; VERMICULITE; WAX;

EID: 84942748839     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.09.069     Document Type: Article

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