Correlation between the local climate and the free-cooling potential of latent heat storage

Effectiveness of CFD simulation for the performance prediction of phase change building boards in the thermal environment control of indoor spaces

“…However, because of the complexity in building operation, construction, architecture, and weather conditions, the results of previous studies are limited to specific cases [7]: such as offices [8]; or specific climatic regions [9]. Various commercial simulation tools such as ESP-r [10] and TRNSYS [11], amongst others, incorporate phase change modelling capabilities.…”

Novel cooling unit using PCM for residential application

“…However, this concept is only feasible in climate conditions with relatively large temperature differences between day and night in Summer (Takeda et al, 2004;Medved and Arkar, 2008).…”

“…During the past 20 years, different designs of ventilation systems using PCM's have been proposed and their performance for free cooling of buildings has been investigated Stritih, 2006, 2009;Stritih and Butala, 2007;Zalba et al, 2004a;Arkar et al, 2007;Arkar and Medved, 2007;Takeda et al, 2004;Medved and Arkar, 2008;Mozhevelov et al, 2006;Zhou et al, 2009;Yanbing et al, 2003;Turnpenny et al, 2000Turnpenny et al, , 2001. The results obtained from these studies have primarily demonstrated that the free cooling technique by using PCMs in buildings can provide better indoor thermal comfort, and help reduce the need of air-conditioning use and sizes of air-conditioning systems.…”

Numerical Model for Solidification and Melting of PCM Encapsulated in Spherical Shells

“…The developed mathematical model was found to be in good agreement with the experiments. The behaviour of LHTES integrated in the air conditioning system was studied by the same authors for a house located in Slovenia [17,18] and for houses located in six different climatic zones in Europe in [19], concluding that LHTES is more efficient if the phase change temperature range of the PCM is higher.…”