A. Khosa, Najam-ul-Hassan Shah, Xinyue Han, N. Husnain
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Abstract
CaCO3 is being studied for its application in thermal energy storage. However, it has drawbacks of slow reaction rate during calcination and incomplete reversible carbonation which limit its use. In this paper, SiO2 has been studied as a dopant for CaCO3 to improve its cyclic performance. CaCO3 samples were loaded with different concentrations of SiO2 and its effect on the thermal energy density of CaCO3 was determined. Afterwards, the effect of the dopant on the heat storage process of the synthesized composite along with kinetics of decarbonation reaction was investigated. Cyclic tests were performed to determine the reusability of the material. It was found that the addition of dopant helped to increase the rate of decarbonation reaction, thereby making the heat storage process more efficient as compared to pure CaCO3. The activation energy values are 255.9, 280.1, 244.9 and 234.8 kJ/mol for 5%, 15%, 30% and 0% doped SiO2 samples, respectively. Furthermore, thermal energy storage density increases when the amount of dopant decreases in the samples such as the 30% and 5% doped samples have gravimetric energy storage densities of 339.85 and 759.24 J/g, respectively. It was observed that the large quantities (15% and 30%) of dopant had introduced a new phase of Ca3SiO5 during CaCO3 decomposition.
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The main aims of Thermal Science
to publish papers giving results of the fundamental and applied research in different, but closely connected fields:
fluid mechanics (mainly turbulent flows), heat transfer, mass transfer, combustion and chemical processes
in single, and specifically in multi-phase and multi-component flows
in high-temperature chemically reacting flows
processes present in thermal engineering, energy generating or consuming equipment, process and chemical engineering equipment and devices, ecological engineering,
The important characteristic of the journal is the orientation to the fundamental results of the investigations of different physical and chemical processes, always jointly present in real conditions, and their mutual influence. To publish papers written by experts from different fields: mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and related fields. To inform international scientific community about the recent, and most prominent fundamental results achieved in the South-East European region, and particularly in Serbia, and - vice versa - to inform the scientific community from South-East European Region about recent fundamental and applied scientific achievements in developed countries, serving as a basis for technology development. To achieve international standards of the published papers, by the engagement of experts from different countries in the International Advisory board.