A refrigerated container envelope with a PCM (Phase Change Material) layer: Experimental and theoretical investigation in a representative town in Central Italy

Fioretti, Roberto; Principi, Paolo; Copertaro, Benedetta

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2016.05.071

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“…Unlike conventional sensible thermal storage material, Phase Change Materials (PCMs) provide much higher energy storage density, and the energy is stored and released at an almost constant temperature. These features are making them more and more attractive within the container building sector [39,40]. Specifically, when applied in the building container, both passive and active space cooling/heating purposes can employ PCMs.…”

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Exploring the Potential of Climate-Adaptive Container Building Design under Future Climates Scenarios in Three Different Climate Zones

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The deployment of containers as building modules has grown in popularity over the past years due to their inherent strength, modular construction, and relatively low cost. The upcycled container architecture is being accepted since it is more eco-friendly than using the traditional building materials with intensive carbon footprint. Moreover, owing to the unquestionable urgency of climate change, existing climate-adaptive design strategies may no longer respond effectively as they are supposed to work in the previous passive design. Therefore, this paper explores the conceptual design for an upcycled shipping container building, which is designed as a carbon-smart modular living solution to a single family house under three design scenarios, related to cold, temperate, and hot–humid climatic zones, respectively. The extra feature of future climate adaption has been added by assessing the projected future climate data with the ASHRAE Standard 55 and Current Handbook of Fundamentals Comfort Model. Compared with the conventional design, Rome would gradually face more failures in conventional climate-adaptive design measures in the coming 60 years, as the growing trends in both cooling and dehumidification demand. Consequently, the appropriate utilization of internal heat gains are proposed to be the most promising measure, followed by the measure of windows sun shading and passive solar direct gain by using low mass, in the upcoming future in Rome. Future climate projection further shows different results in Berlin and Stockholm, where the special attention is around the occasional overheating risk towards the design goal of future thermal comfort.

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“…It was found that a PCM-added layer helps to store the incoming heat load at a constant temperature during the melting phase. A reduction on peak heat transfer rate of 5.55% and 8.57% during two experimental days was observed in comparison with the reference [5].…”

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Improving Performance of Cold-Chain Insulated Container with Phase Change Material: An Experimental Investigation

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Piontek

2017

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Abstract:The cold-chain transportation is an important means to ensure the drug and food safety. An cold-chain insulated container incorporating with Phase Change Material (PCM) has been developed for a temperature-controlled transportation in the range of 2~8 • C. The container configuration and different preconditioning methods have been determined to realize a 72-h transportation under extremely high, extremely low, and alternating temperature conditions. The experimental results showed that the temperature-controlled time was extended from 1 h to more than 80 h and the internal temperature maintained at 4~5 • C by using a PCM with a melting/freezing point of 5 • C, while the container presented a subcooling effect in a range of −1~2 • C when using water as PCM. The experimental values of the temperature-controlled time agreed well with the theoretical values.

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“…Die gebruik van 'n hoë digtheid FVM in die eutektiese plate van die verkoelingstrok sal die noodsaaklikheid vir 'n FIGUUR IV: Die opset van 'n FVM verkoelingsisteem . Ahmed et al, 2010;Fiore et al, 2016).…”

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Oorsig van faseveranderingsmateriaal vir sub-zero temperatuurtoepassings in verkoelingsvervoer

Ndanduleni

Huan

2019

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Hierdie artikel bied ’n oorsig van die tradisionele gebruik van faseveranderingsmateriaal (FVM) in verkoelingsvervoer. Die meerderheid faseveranderingsmateriale in bouwerk en konstruksie word vir ruimtelike verwarming en verkoeling, kweekhuis-verhitting, kook met sonkrag, en die berging van son-energie vir waterverhitting gebruik. Daar is egter ’n merkbare afwesigheid van literatuur oor die aanwending van faseveranderingsmateriaal vir gebruik om bevrore voedselprodukte te bewaar. Hierdie oorsig fokus op latente hittebewarings (LHB) materiale se gebruik in padvervoer by ’n lae temperatuur (sub-zero), en van die voordele vir die verkoeling van bederfbare voedsel oor kort- en lang-afstande. Die voordele van die gebruik van latente hitte-bewaringsmateriaal, eerder as ’n konvensionele meganiese verdampings-kompressiesisteem, word ondersoek met die klem op die omgewingsimpak en moontlike langtermyn nadele. Die studie fokus ook op die noodsaaklikheid om nuwe faseveranderingsmateriaal met hoë termiese siklusse en minimale degradering te ondersoek, ten einde die suksesvolle gebruik in verkoelingsvervoer oor die langtermyn te verseker. Kriteria vir die seleksie van toepaslike faseveranderingsmateriaal word opgesom, en ’n klassifikasie van faseveranderingsmateriaal, gebaseer op smelttemperature en latente warmte, word getabuleer. Faseveranderingsmateriaal en die oordrageienskappe daarvan is ontleed ten einde die eienskappe van faseveranderingsmateriaal op te som, en die akkuraatheid van elke navorsingstegniek word beoordeel op grond van soortgelyke studies wat deur ander navorsers publiseer is. Die faseveranderingsmateriaal wat in verkoelingsvervoer gebruik word, is empiries ontleed, en termiese-fi siese kriteria wat noodsaaklik is vir verskillende toepassings is ook onder die vergrootglas geplaas.

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A refrigerated container envelope with a PCM (Phase Change Material) layer: Experimental and theoretical investigation in a representative town in Central Italy

Cited by 77 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring the Potential of Climate-Adaptive Container Building Design under Future Climates Scenarios in Three Different Climate Zones

Exploring the Potential of Climate-Adaptive Container Building Design under Future Climates Scenarios in Three Different Climate Zones

Improving Performance of Cold-Chain Insulated Container with Phase Change Material: An Experimental Investigation

Oorsig van faseveranderingsmateriaal vir sub-zero temperatuurtoepassings in verkoelingsvervoer

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