DSC STUDIES OF NEW ENERGY-STORAGE MATERIALS .2. NEW MATERIALS AND BULK STUDIES

Energy storage materials (ESMs) 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 some new ESMs 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 ESMs have become clear, and study of this is underway.