THE THERMAL-ANALYSIS OF ENERGY-STORAGE MATERIALS BY DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY

Energy storage materials (ESM) have shown some utility in passive supplemental heating applications. This investigation was undertaken to ascertain the value in passive cooling applications of some known and new ESM using differential scanning calorimetry. The method works extremely well in all cases tested both for single heating and cooling runs and for continuous heating and cooling cycles. The scale-up full room tests give the same results as DSC, further validating this method. Though the materials studied all have some desirable properties, none was deemed of general use. From this investigation the necessary parameters for the discovery of new ESM have become clear, and this study is underway.