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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1999
Mary C. Marshall, San Antonio, TX (US);
Herman W. Schlameus, San Antonio, TX (US);
Richard J. Mannheimer, San Antonio, TX (US);
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to pumpable heat transfer compositions wherein a solid polymeric porous structure having absorbed therein a polar or non-polar phase change material is incorporated with a heat transfer carrier liquid, with the phase change material being present in an amount sufficient to increase the heat capacity and/or heat transfer coefficient of the carrier liquid. The invention also relates to the method of increasing the heat capacity and/or heat transfer coefficient of a heat transfer carrier liquid by adding thereto a solid polymeric porous structure having absorbed therein a polar or non-polar phase change material.