The present invention belongs to the field of energy utilization, and particularly relates to a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material and a preparation method therefor.
As an important energy, heat energy plays an irreplaceable role in human production and life. Heat energy storage generally includes three methods: sensible heat storage, latent heat storage and thermochemical storage. Latent heat storage is a low-cost heat storage method, which uses the transformation of solid and liquid phases of a phase change material to absorb or release heat to achieve the purpose of heat storage and energy storage; and is the most effective method of heat energy storage, which can provide high heat storage density at a low temperature of interval between heat storage and heat release. The material used for heat energy storage is called phase change material, which is now widely used in buildings, refrigeration, air conditioning, textile and other fields. In order to avoid the safety problems caused by pollution of environment, inflammability and other characteristics of the phase change material, the phase change material may be encapsulated generally. The microcapsule encapsulated phase change material can increase the heat transfer area of phase change material and improve the heat conductivity coefficient, and can be applied to energy-saving building materials and heat regulating fibers due to the small encapsulation diameter.
The phase change material can be divided into organic, inorganic and eutectic materials. The organic material is widely used for latent heat storage, has no corrosivity, and has congruent melting characteristic and self-nucleation ability. The inorganic material has high latent heat and high thermal conductivity, and has nontoxicity and other characteristics. However, the traditional microcapsule phase change material may have some inherent defects such as low thermal conductivity, easy phase separation, etc. In recent years, hydrate is widely used in the energy storage technology, and has three structures as an ice-like substance. Compared with the traditional phase change materials, hydrate is higher than other traditional phase change materials in latent heat at a phase change temperature of 4-15° C. Hydrate can be generated by means of two driving forces and can release a lot of heat by increasing the temperature or reducing the pressure, has been widely studied and used in air conditioning, refrigeration, food preservation and other aspects, and is a unique phase change material.
In order to give full play to the advantages of hydrate energy storage and temperature control, the present invention provides a preparation method for preparing a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material. By means of the method, various types of refrigerant hydrate materials can be prepared and can be produced in a process-oriented mode, and the products prepared can be reused.
In view of the defects of the prior art, the present invention provides a preparation method for a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material, to prepare refrigerant hydrate energy-storage temperature-control materials and to further provide a method for preparing various types of hydrate energy-storage temperature-control materials.
A hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material, comprising a core and a shell, wherein the core is made of a hydrate of refrigerant and water, and the shell is made of across-linked polymer.
A preparation method for the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material, comprising the following steps:
Further, generating a hydrate in step 1 includes: {circle around (10)} cleaning and flushing the reactor by using deionized water, pouring the water into the reactor, and exhausting air from the reactor by using a vacuum pump; {circle around (2)} introducing refrigerant into the reactor, cooling the reactor to a temperature below the hydrate phase equilibrium temperature and above the freezing temperature by using a refrigeration cycle cooling system in which the reactor is placed according to the type of the refrigerant and the refrigerant hydrate phase diagram, pressurizing the reactor to the pressure point in a hydrate stabilization region corresponding to the temperature in a phase diagram after the temperature in the reactor is stabilized, and turning on a magnetic stirrer to initiate generation of the hydrate; {circle around (3)} judging whether the hydrate is initially formed through the increase of the temperature in the reactor, wherein the sudden increase of the temperature in the reactor indicates that the hydrate formation reaction begins to release heat; the gradual decrease of the temperature in the reactor until the temperature is stabilized at the original temperature within 1 h indicates that a stable state is reached, and the hydrate is generated completely; measuring the temperature in the reactor by using a temperature sensor in the reactor, measuring the pressure in the reactor by using a pressure sensor, and gathering pressure and temperature signals by a data recording system and collecting same by a personal computer.
Further, the hydrate refrigerant is a mixed liquid of one or more of tetrahydrofuran, cyclopentane and methylcyclohexane.
Further, a magnetic stirrer is present in the reactor, and the magnetic stirrer has a revolving speed of 500-600 rpm, to initiate generation of the hydrate.
Further, the electrostatic spraying device in step 3 comprises: a storage bin, a coating propulsion device, a DC power supply, a nozzle, a conveyor belt and a collection device, wherein the storage bin is configured to internally store spraying material-polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder; the coating propulsion device is connected with a spraying device of the storage bin and the nozzle respectively; the nozzle is made of a conductive material, configured to spray the polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder and connected to the negative electrode of the DC power supply, and dense negative charges are produced on the nozzle; the conveyor belt of the spraying device is made of a conductive resin-based material and configured to place hydrate particles, the conveyor belt faces the nozzle, so that the suspended particles sprayed out from the nozzle come into contact with the hydrate particles to be sprayed; the conveyor belt is connected with the positive electrode of the DC power supply, so that the hydrate particles carry positive charges, and then an electric field required for spraying is formed between the nozzle and the conveyor belt.
Further, the device in step 5 comprises: a throttle valve, a capacitance manometer, a gas distribution nozzle, a high-pressure mercury lamp of ultraviolet lighting system, a water bath heating device, a vacuum pump and a closed container, wherein the closed container is connected to the throttle valve and the capacitance manometer at the inlet, to control the pressure of monomer vapor entering the closed container; the closed container is connected to the vacuum pump at the outlet, and the gas distribution nozzle is internally contained in the closed container to allow gas to be uniformly distributed in the closed container; the closed container is placed in the water bath heating device, to control the temperature in the closed container; and the high-pressure mercury lamp of ultraviolet lighting system irradiates outside the closed container, to promote the reaction.
Further, the polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder has a particle size of 2-12 μm, and is suitable for electrostatic spraying.
Further, the conveying speed of the conveyor belt is 0.5-2 m/s, the linear speed of spraying gas of the nozzle is 100-200 m/s, the powder content of the spraying gas is 1-2 kg/m3, the voltage of the high-voltage electrostatic field is 60-90 kV, the distance between the nozzle and the conveyor belt is 200-300 mm.
Further, the monomer is a monomer solution, which is one of a dopamine methacrylamide solution with a solution concentration of 10%, a 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate solution with a solution concentration of 30% and a glycidyl methacrylate solution with a solution concentration of 30%, wherein the evaporation temperature of the dopamine methacrylamide solution is 109-110° C., the evaporation temperature of the 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate solution is 95° C., and the evaporation temperature of the glycidyl methacrylate solution is 67° C.
Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects: (1) Compared with the organic phase change material, the refrigerant hydrate used by the present invention as a phase change material has higher thermal conductivity, so high the heat conductivity coefficient can be guaranteed; and is easy in nucleation, is good in reversibility and is reusable in work in the use process because the refrigerant hydrate is nucleated before production.
(2) The present invention utilizes graft polymerization of monomer steam and surface free radicals to make the polymer to be distributed uniformly on the outer surface of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material; because no liquid is present on the polytetrafluoroethylene surface, the monomer has H2C═C(CH3)—CO-functional group, adheres to the polytetrafluoroethylene surface through the universal adhesion thereof, and is subjected to graft polymerization with the free radicals on the polytetrafluoroethylene surface under the ultraviolet irradiation system, to obtain a cross-linked polymeron the particle surface, making the microcapsule surface shell more compact; due to the presence of graft polymerization, the force generated by the valence between the core and the outer surface shell is much larger than the Van der Waals force between typical core and shell, so that the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material has high stability.
(3) In the preparation method provided by the present invention, any refrigerant hydrate may be used, and the properties of the refrigerant hydrate may not affect the application of the method.
In the figure: 1. storage bin; 2. coating propulsion device; 3. DC power supply; 4. nozzle; 5. conveyor belt; 6. collection device; 7. hydrate particle;
In the figure: 8. throttle valve; 9. capacitance manometer; 10 gas distribution nozzle; 11. high-pressure mercury lamp of ultraviolet lighting system; 12. water bath heating device; 13. vacuum pump; 14. closed container; 15. hydrate particle wrapped by modified PTFE powder.
Specific embodiments of the present invention are further described below in combination with the drawings and the technical solution.
Taking a cyclopentane hydrate as an example, a preparation method for a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material, comprising the following steps:
Experimental Data Processing Method:
Because the measurement results directly obtained by means of the preparation device and method for a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material are mass, volume and phase change latent heat, there is a need to perform thermodynamic calculation on the measurement results. By calculating the hydrate mass percentage Mhydrate %, the encapsulation rate R, the encapsulation efficiency E and the heat Q transferred from a single microcapsule to the outside world, the performance of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material used in the phase-change temperature-control field is studied.
The theoretical hydrate mass percentage of the sample is represented by Mhydrate %:
where Mhydrate represents the hydrate particle mass of the crushed hydrate, and M represents the total mass of the hydrate capsule products.
The encapsulation rate of the sample hydrate is represented by R:
The encapsulation efficiency of the sample hydrate is represented by E:
where ΔHm,hydrate represents the phase change enthalpy in the melting process of decomposing the hydrate into liquid water and liquid refrigerant, ΔHc,hydrate the phase change enthalpy in the solidification process of synthesizing the liquid water and the liquid refrigerant into hydrate, and ΔHm and ΔHc respectively represent the phase change enthalpies in the melting process and the solidification process of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control product measured by using the differential scanning calorimeter.
The heat transferred to the outside world in the phase change process of a single hydrate energy-storage temperature-control particle is represented by Q:
integral:
Where t1,t2 respectively represent the temperature (phase change temperature) of the hydrate in the particles and the external ambient temperature, k represents the heat conductivity coefficient of the material shell, and r1 and r2 respectively represent the inside radius and outside radius of the single material particle.
r1 can be calculated by the following formula:
where Mhydrate represents the hydrate particle mass of the crushed hydrate, and ρ represents the density of the hydrate.
∅hydrate can be calculated by the following formula:
where ∅hydrate represents the percentage of the hydrate in the total volume of the material particles, and r2 represents the mean radius of the material particles measured by a particle size measuring instrument.
The density ρ of the cyclopentane hydrate can be calculated by the following formula:
where for ρ, according to the assumption from Sloan (1998), assuming that guest molecules completely occupy the large cage of the hydrate, Nw represents the number of water molecules per unit cell, Nw=136; MW represents molecule mass, the molecule mass of MWH
The heat storage capacity of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material particles is represented by Qh:
where ti represents initial temperature, t2 represents final temperature, f represents melting fraction, L represents phase change latent heat, and cp represents specific heat capacity of hydrate. The phase change latent heat can be obtained according to experimental data, L=338.800 kJ/kg which is higher than 247 kJ/kg of phase change latent heat of formic acid and 186 kJ/kg of phase change latent heat of propylene glycol.
The constant pressure heat capacity cp can be calculated by the following formula:
cp=a+bT+cT2+dT3 (10)
where a, b, c, d represent the heat capacity parameters of the hydrate, for the cyclopentane hydrate, a=−124.33, b=3.2592, c=2×10−6 and d=−4×10−9.
The hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material is used to release cooling amount and adjust the temperature in a room. When the initial temperature ti of the material is 2° C. and the final temperature t2 (ambient temperature) thereof is 15° C. and the hydrate in the material melts completely, the cyclopentane hydrate can release 349.118 kJ/kg of heat which is higher than 279.45 kJ/kg of heat released by formic acid and 218.37 kJ/kg of heat released by propylene glycol under the same condition, thereby having good energy storage characteristics.
The phase change time of a single hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material particle is represented by τ:
where mH represents the phase change rate of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material particle.
According to the hydrate thermal decomposition rate model studied by Kamath, the phase change rate mH of the hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material particle can be calculated by the following formula:
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