Data supporting the prediction of the properties of eutectic organic phase change materials

Samer Kahwaji; Mary Anne White

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.102

Data supporting the prediction of the properties of eutectic organic phase change materials

Data Brief. 2018 Feb 3:17:724-730. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.102. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Samer Kahwaji¹, Mary Anne White^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2.
² Clean Technologies Research Institute, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2.

Abstract

The data presented in this article include the molar masses, melting temperatures, latent heats of fusion and temperature-dependent heat capacities of fifteen fatty acid phase change materials (PCMs). The data are used in conjunction with the thermodynamic models discussed in Kahwaji and White (2018) [1] to develop a computational tool that calculates the eutectic compositions and thermal properties of eutectic mixtures of PCMs. The computational tool is part of this article and consists of a Microsoft Excel® file available in Mendeley Data repository [2]. A description of the computational tool along with the properties of nearly 100 binary mixtures of fatty acid PCMs calculated using this tool are also included in the present article. The Excel® file is designed such that it can be easily modified or expanded by users to calculate the properties of eutectic mixtures of other classes of PCMs.

Keywords: Eutectic; PCM; Phase change materials; Thermal energy storage; Thermal properties.