PMID- 34361318
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210809
IS  - 1996-1944 (Print)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Electronic)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 15
DP  - 2021 Jul 24
TI  - Experimental Investigation of the Apparent Thermal Conductivity of 
      Microencapsulated Phase-Change-Material Slurry at the Phase-Transition 
      Temperature.
LID - 10.3390/ma14154124 [doi]
LID - 4124
AB  - The article presents the results of detailed studies of the thermal conductivity 
      of the water slurry of microencapsulated PCM (mPCM) and slurry based on 
      water-propylene glycol solutions. The starting product, MICRONAL((R)) 5428 X, which 
      contains about 43% microencapsulated paraffin with a transformation temperature 
      of 28  degrees C, was mixed with the base liquid to obtain slurries with mass fractions 
      of mPCM of 4.3, 8.6, 12.9, 17.2, 21.5, 25.8, 30.1, 34.4, 38.7, and 43.0%. 
      Detailed measurements were carried out in the temperature range of 10-40  degrees C. It 
      was found that: (a) an increase in the temperature of the slurry caused an 
      increase in its thermal conductivity, both when PCM was in the form of a solid 
      and a liquid; (b) the thermal conductivity of the mPCM slurry when the PCM was in 
      liquid form was greater than the thermal conductivity of the slurry when the PCM 
      was liquid; (c) during the phase transformation, a significant increase in the 
      thermal conductivity of the slurry was observed, and its peak occurred when the 
      temperature of the slurry reached the temperature declared by the manufacturer at 
      which the phase-transition peak occurs.
FAU - Dutkowski, Krzysztof
AU  - Dutkowski K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3945-9882
AD  - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. 
      Raclawicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland.
FAU - Kruzel, Marcin
AU  - Kruzel M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8349-1375
AD  - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. 
      Raclawicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210724
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Materials (Basel)
JT  - Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101555929
PMC - PMC8347062
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - PCM
OT  - experimental investigation
OT  - microencapsulation
OT  - thermal conductivity
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the 
      design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in 
      the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2021/08/08 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/08 06:01
PMCR- 2021/07/24
CRDT- 2021/08/07 01:09
PHST- 2021/06/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/07/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/07/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/08/07 01:09 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/08/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ma14154124 [pii]
AID - materials-14-04124 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ma14154124 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Materials (Basel). 2021 Jul 24;14(15):4124. doi: 10.3390/ma14154124.