Thermodynamic reassessment of the novel solid-state thermal energy storage materials: Ternary polyalcohol and amine system pentaglycerine-tris(hydroxymethyl)-amino-methane-neopentylglycol (PG-TRIS-NPG)

Organic polyalcohol and amine globular molecular crystals such as PG, TRIS, and NPG are considered as the most promising potential candidates for solid-state thermal energy storage in the orientationally disordered high temperature phases. In this study, we first propose a new PG-TRIS-NPG phase diagram based on experimental data of the three sub-binary systems NPG-PG, PG-TRIS, and NPG-TRIS with CALPHAD methodology. The NPG-PG binary phase diagram was optimized using sub-regular models that showed complete miscibility in the entire compositional range of high temperature γ′ (FCC) phase region, and an invariant equilibrium point at 299.5 K. The NPG-TRIS binary system was also calculated using sub-regular model, from sub-ambient to well above the melting temperatures, and determined three invariant equilibria at 311.1 K, 391.8 K, and 410.6 K, respectively. These calculated binary phase diagrams are in good agreement with the experimental data. The PG-TRIS-NPG ternary system has also been calculated and qualitatively analyzed using the CALPHAD method and Thermo-Calc software. A set of self-consistent thermodynamic parameters formulating the Gibbs energies of various phase in the PG-TIRS-NPG ternary system are obtained in the present work. Thermodynamic properties such as several isotherms, isopleths, and liquidus projections are calculated by using present datasets as shown in this work in which the solid ternary compound (TRIS0.5NPG0.5)XPG1−X (0.1≤x≤0.9), (TRIS0.5PG0.5)XNPG1−X (0.1≤x≤0.9), and (PG0.5NPG0.5)XTRIS1−X (0.1≤x≤0.9) with various solid-solid phase transitions at different temperatures could apply to applications in the solid-state thermal energy storage.