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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2024.110</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2024.110</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Fabrication of phase change thermal storage unit possesses water-proof and high mechanical strength</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Wei</surname><given-names>Hanze</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Zheng</surname><given-names>Ziao</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Zheng</surname><given-names>Chunyuan</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Li</surname><given-names>Bin</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Zhao</surname><given-names>Bingchen</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Wei</surname><given-names>Ziqing</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Zhai</surname><given-names>Xiaoqiang</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Midea Group, Foshan, 528311, China</aff>
    </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>12</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date>
      <volume>21</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-356-1</isbn>
      <fpage>40</fpage>
      <lpage>50</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2024.110"/>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received"><string-date>12 December 2024</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2024 Copyright University of Nottingham &amp; WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>Phase Change Material (PCM) has been brought to the fore by the blooming demands of large-scale energy storage. However, the PCM and Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF) are not supposed to contact each other directly due to the risk of leakage, which requires a heat exchanger to realize heat transfer. This may induce extra cost and lower overall heat storage efficiency. In this paper, a novel type of water-proof and high-strength Phase Change Thermal Storage Unit (PCTSU) is fabricated with the method of in-situ polymerization. The phase change material Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) is packaged and coated by Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA)/ Isobornyl Methacrylate (IBMA) co-polymer. The P(MMA-co-IBMA) structure renders the PCTSU with the ability to be leakage-free in a water environment and maintain macro shape at high temperatures. Thermal enhance filler Expanded Graphite (EG) is also added, for good measure, EG also plays a role as the second package structure to consolidate the shape-stable character. Mechanical strength and leakage test results validate that the fabricated PCTSU can keep the compression modulus of 5.83 MPa at 65 ℃. The PEG leakage is not detected under high-temperature water immersion environment, proving an ideal water-proof feature. Besides, the PCTSU possesses excellent thermal properties. The phase changes latent heat enthalpy can reach 132 J/g, and the thermal conductivity can reach 1.499 W/(m·K), which renders the PCTSU with ideal heat storage capacity and power density. This new type of PCTSU may provide a high-efficiency solution for large-scale thermal storage equipment design.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Shape-Stable Phase Change Material</kwd>
        <kwd>Water-Proof</kwd>
        <kwd>Mechanical Strength</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>12 to 14 August 2024</conf-date>
        <conf-name>21st International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2024</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>21</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Shanghai, China</conf-loc>
      </conference>
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