Day 2, Session Block F
08:30 PCM Composite Materials for the Building Skin
Chair: Zhenjun Ma, University of Wollongong, Australia
- PCM with solid-solid transition
- Analysis of the composite properties
- Characterization of the composite
Thibault Harlé, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Neuville-sur-Oise, France
- Development of a new shape-stabilized material by sol-gel method
- Thermal characterization of the obtained building materials
- Incorporation of PCMs into porous bricks by immersion and vacuum impregnation techniques
Ángel Serrano Casero, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Combined application of greenhouse cells and PCM in building skins
- Experimental set-up and numerical study of the proposed building skin
- Strategies and potential performance of the system
Gert Guldentops, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Hooke-Jeeves and particle swarm optimization
- Identifying the optimal values for major design variables
Mohammed Imroz Sohel, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Building façade materials for surface temperature control
- Environmental behavior of new construction materials
- Simulation of the thermal behavior of the building envelope
Bisam Al-Hafiz, École Nationale Supérieure d‘Architecture de Nantes, France
- Cooling ceilings with enhanced thermal energy storage properties
- Monitoring data from real-life installations
- Peak-load shifting and reduction of cooling loads
Constantin Römer, Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern), Würzburg, Germany
10:00 Coffee break