Thermal/optical study and characterization of a MCP doped with In2O3 and AlCl3 for solar use
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58452/jpcr.v2i2.167Keywords:
MCP, AlCl 3 , PL, FTIR, DSC.Abstract
Thermal insulation is one of the major problems of building comfort. One
of the solutions proposed is the use of the latent heat of phase change
materials to evacuate the external heat in order to keep it at an adequate
temperature in the chamber. In this work, we use the latent heat of a MCP
type C 25 H 52 pure and doped with two types of dopant In 2 O 3 and AlCl 3 for
the climatic application. We study the effect of dopant nature and doping
rate on phase change time, latent heat and mass loss. To improve this time
we doped our material with In 2 O 3 , and AlCl 3 . The study consists in
monitoring the evolution of the phase change time, the flow of the latent
heat and the loss of the mass according to the nature of the dopant and the
doping rate. A study of the DSC, ATG, FTIR and PL characterization is
presented. The study showed that the best dopant for solar insulation is
AlCl 3 doping.
