Ventilated active façades with PCM

Thermal performance of a window shutter containing PCM: Numerical validation and experimental analysis

“…This capacity contributes to minimize the maximum and the minimum indoor air temperature peaks and to reduce the buildings energy demand [18,[25][26][27]. Many studies and research challenges of PCM into glazing and/or windows solutions can be found in the literature [17,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

Building Integrated Solar Thermal (BIST) Technologies and Their Applications: A Review of Structural Design and Architectural Integration

“…These potentials allow the increase of system energy efficiency, and the reduction of pipe size and collector area, moreover save pumping power consumption due to less quantity of heat transfer fluids [19]. But till now, more applications of PCM [20][21][22][23][24][25] have been found in the BIST system for the function of thermal storage with the characteristics of a great thermal energy storage capacity, a high heat transfer property and a positive phase change temperatures. Although the heat transfer of PCM is quite complicated, it has broad prospects for the practical application in the future.…”

Phase change materials (PCMs) integrated into transparent building elements: a review

“…Diarce et al [38] investigated the thermal performance of a new type of ventilated active façade that includes a PCM in its outer layer, as shown in Fig. 6.…”

“…Their testing facility and equipment allowed them to take a range of measurements to evaluate the performance of the ventilated facade with macro-encapsulated PCM, which are given in Table 2. The active ventilated facade with a PCM, suggested by Diarce et al [38], was studied in a PASLINK test cell with temperature probes and also employed air velocity sensors and pyranometers. Thus, in their work Diarce et al [38] presented data of the global vertical radiation, the outdoor temperatures, and the temperatures inside the PCM at the bottom and the top of the façade.…”