Utilisation des PCM dans les bâtiments pour économiser l’énergie et réguler les charges thermiques
Chair: Jan Kosny, Building Enclosure Program Lead, Fraunhofer USA, Boston, MA, USA
- Application of PCM on existing buildings at city of Alkhobar
- Survey of current insulation materials and HVAC systems
- Comparison using cooling load calculation between the existing insulation and the new one
Rami Alsayed, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
- Winter heating of the structure using wax solidification
- Summer cooling using wax melting
- Effect of the changing of solidification and melting temperatures
Vadim Dubovsky, Dep. of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- The different roles of PCMs in winter and in summer
- Effects of variable set points to maximize charging/discharging of PCMs and energy savings
- Thermal comfort implications when PCMs are installed in buildings
Paulo Tabares, Univ. of Denver, Colorado, USA
- Overview of thermal management solutions
- Development of Aerogel/PCM
- Testing and results
George Gould, Aspen Aerogels, USA
- State of the art on PCM modeling and PCM influence on building performance
- Implementation of a PCM module in a hygro-thermal building simulation software
- Application examples
Matthias Winkler, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany
- Evaluation of the thermal performance of PCMs
- Measuring thermal storage properties of PCM products
- Standard test method and the use of PCMs in North America
David W. Yarbrough, R&D Services, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
17:45 End of Conference Day 1