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Title:
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Compatibility of plastic with phase change materials (PCM)
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Author:
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Castellón, Cecilia; Martorell, Ingrid; Cabeza, Luisa F.; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Manich, A. M.
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Even though paraffin interactions with plastics are known by industry, plastics are commonly proposed as
container materials for encapsulating phase change materials (PCM) in many applications. In the literature, there
are very few experimental studies of organic PCM migration in plastics and its effects on plastic properties. These
interactions are a case study of environmental stress cracking, which is considered one of the most common causes
of plastic failure. The aim of this work is an experimental study of interactions of some PCM typically used for
thermal energy storage, and some plastic materials currently used as encapsulating materials. With the materials
tested in this work, it can be concluded that, for encapsulating organic PCM, low-density polyethylene and
polypropylene showed worse behaviour than high-density polyethylene.
The work was partially funded by the Spanish
government (project ENE2008-06687-C02-01/CON)
and the European Union (COST Action COST
TU0802). The authors would like to thank the Catalan
Government for the quality accreditation given to their
research group (2009 SGR 534). |
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Subject(s):
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-Phase change material
-plastic
-PCM encapsulation |
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(c) John Wiley & Sons, 2010
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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article
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Published by:
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John Wiley & Sons
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