Table 2.
Thermal characteristics of different composite phase change materials (PCMs) in the literature.
| PCMs | PEG | Melting | Crystallization | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content | Tm (°C) | Hm (J/g) | Tc (°C) | Hc (J/g) | ||
| PEG/NFMS | 80% | 50.80 | 136.60 | 41.00 | 132.60 | Present study |
| SA/TAMSN | 70% | 71.50 | 108.80 | 64.00 | 114.10 | Chen et al. [1] |
| PEG/RMS | 80% | 57.22 | 129.60 | 39.02 | 118.30 | Min et al. [7] |
| PEG6000/CNIC | 60% | 43.80 | 45.80 | 12.00 | 42.70 | Feng et al. [9] |
| PEG/AC | 80% | 49.00 | 81.30 | 27.80 | 72.80 | Feng et al. [11] |
| PEG/SiO2 | 79.3% | 58.09 | 151.80 | 42.34 | 141.00 | Qian et al. [28] |
| c-PCMP4 | 85.36% | 56.50 | 159.70 | 37.90 | 155.60 | Zhao et al. [29] |