Application of latent heat thermal energy storage in buildings: State-of-the-art and outlook

Zhang, Yinping; Zhou, Guobing; Lin, Kunping; Zhang, Qunli; Di, Honggui

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.07.023

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“…Hariri and Ward [9] presented the first review paper of using thermal storage system in building applications, which mainly from the theoretical aspects of sensible and latent heat storage. From 2007, some reviews on possible current building applications of thermal energy storage have been carried out [15,16,18,19]. It is apparently that there are a little of reviews on this topic in these two years, one about enhanced gypsum wallboard and enhance concrete technique [19] and one about the PCMs used for building applications [20].…”

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Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications

2012

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Thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) offers a high thermal storage density with a moderate temperature variation, and has attracted growing attention due to its important role in achieving energy conservation in buildings with thermal comfort. Various methods have been investigated by previous researchers to incorporate PCMs into the building structures, and it has been found that with the help of PCMs the indoor temperature fluctuations can be reduced significantly whilst maintaining desirable thermal comfort. This paper summarises previous works on latent thermal energy storage in building applications, covering PCMs, the impregnation methods, current building applications and their thermal performance analyses, as well as numerical simulation of buildings with PCMs. Over 100 references are included in this paper.

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“…The range of phase change temperature range is from T1 (lower limit) to T2 (upper limit). Table 2 lists the thermal properties of PCM (Zhou, 2007(Zhou, :1351(Zhou, -1360. Figure:7 The equivalent specific heat distribution with temperature…”

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“…Applying cogeneration / trigeneration technology to small scale residential use is an attractive option because of the large potential market. Khatri et al 2010, page1505-1509and lin Lin et al, 2007, page 576-585 designed and analysed micro trigeneration systems based on small diesel engines. The experimental results show that the idea of actualizing a household size trigeneration system is feasible and the design of such trigeneration system is successful.…”

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“…Compared with the sensible heat storage system, the phase change material (PCM) becomes popular due to its higher energy storage density and the smaller masses and volumes of material. So PCM has been widely used in many engineering, such as heating and cooling (Zhang(2007), solar energy storage (Esen (2000)), food preservation (Gin (2010)), cooling of electronic components (Weng,2011)) and so on.…”

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A study on the effect of ground surface boundary conditions in modelling shallow ground heat exchangers

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Bottarelli²,

2017

Applied Thermal Engineering

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“…PCMs are mainly classified as organic, inorganic and eutectic, and the main advantages and disadvantages of each PCM type can be found in refs. [71][72][73][74][75][76][77]. Regarding building applications, PCMs should have a melting/solidification temperature in the practical range of application, high latent heat of fusion and improved thermal conductivity [9].…”

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Energy efficiency and thermal performance of lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction: A review

Soares

Santos

Gervásio

et al. 2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The improvement of the use of renewable energy sources, such as solar thermal energy, and the reduction of energy demand during the several stages of buildings' life cycle is crucial towards a more sustainable built environment. This paper presents an overview of the main features of lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction with cold-formed elements from the point of view of life cycle energy consumption. The main LSF systems are described and some strategies for reducing thermal bridges and for improving the thermal resistance of LSF envelope elements are presented. Several passive strategies for increasing the thermal storage capacity of LSF solutions are discussed and particular attention is devoted to the incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs). These materials can be used to improve indoor thermal comfort, to reduce the energy demand for air-conditioning and to take advantage of solar thermal energy. The importance of reliable dynamic and holistic simulation methodologies to assess the energy demand for heating and cooling during the operational phase of LSF buildings is also discussed. Finally, the life cycle assessment (LCA) and the environmental performance of LSF construction are reviewed to discuss the main contribution of this kind of construction towards more sustainable buildings.

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Application of latent heat thermal energy storage in buildings: State-of-the-art and outlook

Cited by 526 publications

References 62 publications

Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications

Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials (PCMs) in building applications

A study on the effect of ground surface boundary conditions in modelling shallow ground heat exchangers

Energy efficiency and thermal performance of lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction: A review

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