Thermal analysis of PCM integrated building blocks for passive cooling application

International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing, Materials and Energy Engineering 2018

材料科学;能源学

Anfas Mukram, T.^1 ; Daniel, Joseph^1

School of Mechanical and Building Science, VIT University, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India^1

关键词: Ambient weather;    Analysis and modelling;    Effective practices;    Experimental analysis;    Heat transfer rate;    Indoor comforts;    Integrated buildings;    Latent heat of fusion;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/376/1/012015/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/376/1/012015

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This experiment deals with the thermal analysis of cement bricks encapsulated with phase change materials (PCM) when subjected to ambient weather conditions such as solar radiation and temperature. Thermal analysis and modelling of building bricks containing PCM has been carried out to exploit the high latent heat of fusion which will help to improve the indoor comfort in buildings. In the model presented in this paper, the PCM is filled in the central cavity of the bricks after encapsulating in an aluminium container. The experimental analysis is carried out by constructing a model and the heat transfer rate is compared with a similar normal brick and the effectiveness of PCM in the building bricks has been valued. The results show that PCM encapsulation in building brick is an effective practice for passive thermal control of buildings.