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Fluoride salts as phase change materials for thermal energy storage in the temperature range 1000-1400 KEutectic compositions and congruently melting intermediate compounds in binary and ternary fluoride salt systems were characterized for potential use as latent heat of fusion phase change materials to store thermal energy in the temperature range 1000-1400 K. The melting points and eutectic compositions for many systems with published phase diagrams were experimentally verified and new eutectic compositions having melting points between 1000 and 1400 K were identified. Heats of fusion of several binary and ternary eutectics and congruently melting compounds were experimentally measured by differential scanning calorimetry. For a few systems in which heats of mixing in the melts have been measured, heats of fusion of the eutectics were calculated from thermodynamic considerations and good agreement was obtained between the measured and calculated values. Several combinations of salts with high heats of fusion per unit mass (greater than 0.7 kJ/g) have been identified for possible use as phase change materials in advanced solar dynamic space power applications.
Document ID
19880046507
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Misra, Ajay K.
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Electrochemical Society, Journal
Volume: 135
ISSN: 0013-4651
Subject Category
Energy Production And Conversion
Accession Number
88A33734
Distribution Limits
Public
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