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Title: Thermal energy storage system comprising encapsulated phase change material

Abstract

Methods of encapsulating a phase change material in a capsule including suspending a particle of the phase change material in an air stream, coating an entire surface of the suspended particle with at least one layer of a sacrificial compound, coating an entire surface of the layer of the sacrificial compound with at least one layer of a second material, and encapsulating the phase change material within a shell formed by the second material. The step of encapsulating comprising heating the particle coated with the sacrificial compound and the second material, thermally decomposing the sacrificial compound, and vaporizing the sacrificial, wherein the sacrificial compound has a decomposition temperature less than a phase change temperature of the phase change material and a phase change temperature of the second material.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Terrafore Technologies, LLC, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1490078
Patent Number(s):
10107564
Application Number:
15/243,537
Assignee:
Terrafore Technologies, LLC (Minneapolis, MN); Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, TX)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B65 - CONVEYING B65B - MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS
C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
DOE Contract Number:  
EE0003589
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2016 Aug 22
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 25 ENERGY STORAGE

Citation Formats

Mathur, Anoop Kumar, Kasetty, Rajan Babu, and Oxley, James D. Thermal energy storage system comprising encapsulated phase change material. United States: N. p., 2018. Web.
Mathur, Anoop Kumar, Kasetty, Rajan Babu, & Oxley, James D. Thermal energy storage system comprising encapsulated phase change material. United States.
Mathur, Anoop Kumar, Kasetty, Rajan Babu, and Oxley, James D. Tue . "Thermal energy storage system comprising encapsulated phase change material". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1490078.
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Method for preparing encapsulated phase change materials
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Microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles
patent-application, June 2007


Composition and Method For Making a Proppant
patent-application, June 2008