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Author(s): Huibin Yina, Jing Ding, Jing Dingb, Xuenong Gao, Zhengguo Zhang

Keywords: absorbability, electronic industry, expanded graphite, graphite, heat flux, heat sink, heat transfer, paraffin, paraffin (pa), pcms, phase change materials, rapid thermal response pcms, thermal conductivity, thermal energy storage, thermal response, transient plane source, transient plane source (tps) method

Abstract: Phase change materials (PCMs) can be used as heat sinks to manage high temperature fluctuations in electronics. In this paper, a heat sink was generated from a paraffin/expanded graphite composite PCM, and the thermal conductivities of the materials were measured using the transient plane source (TPS) method of the Thermal Analyzer. Results showed that the composite PCM had a significantly higher thermal conductivity than the pure paraffin.

Reference: Energy Conversion and Management, 49 (2008) 1740-1746

DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2007.10.022