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In order to extract thermal battery parameters from a measured impedance spectrum, a thermal model of the battery is necessary. This model reproduces the effects of heat capacity, thermal conductivity, heat exchange with environment, and internal losses generation. Transient simulation is then used to calculate an impedance spectrum for the battery model which is subsequently employed for parameter identification. 

Generally, pure polymers have low thermal conductivities, ranging from 0.1 to 0.6W/(m K), as listed in Table 10.1. Foaming polymers may further enhance this low thermal conductivity. Polymer foams with lower density have more air and thus have lower thermal cmiductivity. The cell size of foamed polymers may also have an effect on thermal cOTiductivity. Smaller foam cell size tends to yield lower thermal cmiductivity. Most foamed polymers have thermal cOTiductivity values in the order of 10 W/(m K), which is about 10 times less than the same polymers. Table 10.2 is the list of thermal conductivities for common commercial foamed polymers. 

In order to take into account the effect of surface tension and micro-channel hydraulic diameter, we have applied the Eotvos number Eo = g(pL — pG)d /(y. Eig-ure 6.40 shows the dependence of the Nu/Eo on the boiling number Bo, where Nu = hd /k] is the Nusselt number, h is the heat transfer coefficient, and k] is the thermal conductivity of fluid. All fluid properties are taken at the saturation temperature. This dependence can be approximated, with a standard deviation of 18%, by the relation ... 

The external heat flux (q"x) from the cone heater does not exclusively determine the heat flux important for samples pyrolysis in the cone calorimeter, since the reradiation from the hot sample surface (q"eTad), the loss by thermal conductivity into the specimen and the surroundings ( I SS), and the heat flux from the flame (q Lmt) are also of the same order of magnitude.82 85 Thus, the heat flux effective with respect to pyrolysis during a cone calorimeter run (qeii) is the result of the external heat flux and the material s response (qeB = q L + < L - gCad - qLs). 

Amorphous materials have no long-range structural order, so there is no continuous lattice in which atoms can vibrate in concert in order for phonons to propagate. As a result, phonon mean free paths are restricted to distances corresponding to interatomic spacing, and the (effective) thermal conductivity of (oxide) glasses remains low and increases only with photon conduction (Figure 8.2). 

Pot lives of DETA and TETA adhesives are on the order of 20 to 30 min at room temperature. When mixed with DGEBA epoxy resins in large batches, the exotherm can be significant due to the reactivity. This generally limits the amount of mixed adhesive that can be prepared at one time, and it also limits the amount (mass) of adhesive that can be applied to a joint [although often thin bond line and the thermal conductivity of the substrate (e.g., metals) will diminish exotherm effects]. 

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