Experimental investigation and computer simulation of thermal behaviour of wallboards containing a phase change material
By Maha Ahmad, A. Bontemps, H. Sallée, D. Quenard. 2006
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In the objective to define passive components for the light envelope of buildings, different types of wallboards containing a phase change material (PCM) were studied. The high storage capacity should enable the overall thickness of wallboards to be less than 5 cm. To lower the investment costs, the wallboards were made from commercial panels after a first attempt of using gypsum walls. Three types of wallboards were studied: (i) a polycarbonate panel filled with paraffin granulates; (ii) a polycarbonate panel filled with polyethylene glycol PEG 600; (iii) a PVC panel filled with PEG 600 and coupled to a VIP. An experimental set-up was built to determine the thermal response of these wallboards to thermal solicitations. Experimental results were compared to those obtained by a numerical simulation in which an apparent heat capacity method was used. The final results show that the last studied wallboard could be used in the test cells under construction and then validate the concept.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- A review on phase change materials integrated in building walls (2011, background): “The figure 14 extract from [14] shows the experimental phase diagram of binary mixtures system of C14H30 and C16H34.”
- Experimental study of small-scale solar wall integrating phase change material (2012, unknown): “From this point of view, it is important to propose schemes to reduce losses and increase building solar gains while maintaining occupant comfort in all seasons (Gratia and Deherdea, 2007; Alzoubi and Alshboul, 2010; Ahmad et al., 2006; Diaconu and Cruceru, 2010).”