TY - JOUR AU - Yang, Haiyue AU - Wang, Yazhou AU - Liu, Zhuangchao AU - Liang, Daxin AU - Liu, Feng AU - Zhang, Wenbo AU - Di, Xin AU - Wang, Chengyu AU - Ho, Shih-Hsin AU - Chen, Wei-Hsin PY - 2017 DA - 2017/12/06 TI - Enhanced thermal conductivity of waste sawdust-based composite phase change materials with expanded graphite for thermal energy storage JO - Bioresources and Bioprocessing SP - 52 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - With the current rapid economic growth, demands for energy are progressively increasing. Energy shortages have attracted significant attention due to the shrinking availability of non-renewable resources. Therefore, thermal energy storage is one of the solutions that lead to saving of fossil fuels and make systems more cost-effective by the storage of wasted thermal energy. In particular, the application of phase change materials (PCMs) is considered as an effective and efficient approach to thermal energy storage because of the high latent heat storage capacity at small temperature intervals. Nevertheless, leakage problems and low thermal conductivity limit the practical applications of PCMs. Therefore, form-stable phase change materials with high thermal conductivity are urgently needed. SN - 2197-4365 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40643-017-0182-4 DO - 10.1186/s40643-017-0182-4 ID - Yang2017 ER -