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Analyses of phase change materials’ efficiency in warm-summer humid continental climate conditions

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dc.creator Ratnieks, J.
dc.creator Gendelis, S.
dc.creator Jakovics, A.
dc.creator Bajare, Diana
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-03T12:15:07Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-03T12:15:07Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/251/1/012119
dc.identifier 1757-8981
dc.identifier 1757-899X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/60495
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/23968
dc.description The usage of phase change materials (PCMs) is a way to store excess energy pro- duced during the hot time of the day and release it during the night thereby reducing the overheating problem. While, in Latvian climate conditions overheating is not a big issue in traditional buildings since it happens only a couple of weeks per year air conditioners must still be installed to maintain thermal comfort. The need for cooling in recently built office buildings with large window area can increase signi cantly. It is therefore of great interest if the ther- mal comfort conditions can be maintained by PCMs alone or with reduced maximum power of installed cooling systems. Our initial studies show that if the test building is well-insulated (nec- essary to reduce heat loss in winter), phase change material is not able to solidify fast enough during the relatively short night time. To further investigate the problem various experimental setups with two different phase change materials were installed in test buildings. Experimental results are compared with numerical modelling made in software COMSOL Multiphysics. The effectiveness of PCM using different situations is widely analysed.
dc.description This publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 657466 (INPATH-TES).
dc.language eng
dc.publisher IOP Publishing
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/251/1/012119
dc.relation IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017, vol. 251, p. 012119 (9 pp.)
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/657466/EU/INPATH-TES
dc.rights cc-by (c) J. Ratnieks et al., 2017
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Phase change materials (PCM)
dc.title Analyses of phase change materials’ efficiency in warm-summer humid continental climate conditions
dc.type article
dc.type publishedVersion


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