Wendong Li , Mourad Rahim , Dongxia Wu , Mohammed El Ganaoui , Rachid Bennacer
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Abstract
Passively integrating phase change material into the walls to enhance the thermal performance of the building has been a promising solution in recent years. As the PCM has a high latent heat capacity, it leads to damping the high variations of temperature and provides an obvious benefit in energy saving and indoor comfort. However, the traditional passive integration method of the PCM limited the utilization of the PCM. The thermal resistance between the PCM and the indoors restrains the thermal response of the PCM, and it between the PCM and the outdoors reduces the impact of outdoor heating or cooling on the PCM. In this study, a dynamic PCM integration in the building envelope method was proposed and experimentally investigated. A PCM layer and an air layer were combined to be integrated into the wall assembly, which allows the position of the PCM layer and the air layer could be changed to adjust the thermal resistance (air layer) between the PCM and indoors and outdoors. The results showed that this dynamic method can dramatically reduce the indoor temperature and the heat flux across the interior surface of the wall. Compared to the envelope with only static PCM layer configurations, the dynamic PCM provided a reduction of 9.1 % in the indoor average temperature and a reduction of 116.0 % in the peak heat flux during the experiment's three days, as well as the dynamic PCM, exploited more latent heat than the other static configurations. Considering the energy performance, the dynamic integration of PCM showed a 100 % reduction in heat gain through the interior surface compared to the envelope with only a static PCM layer under summer conditions.
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