Expanded vermiculite loaded with titanium dioxide and treated with nitric acid (aEVT) was used for absorbing stearic acid (SA) by vacuum impregnation method.
The latent heats of SA/aEVT were 146.8 J/g at the melting temperature of 65.9 °C and 141.7 J/g at the freezing temperature of 63.4 °C.
The thermal conductivity of SA/aEVT was 0.58 W/mK.
The latent heat and thermal conductivity of SA/aEVT were both higher than those of SA/EV and SA/aEV.
The SA/aEVT composite PCM has good thermal and chemical stabilities.