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  • Free cooling of a building utilizing PCM heat storage integrated into the ventilation system
    Arkar, Ciril ; Medved, Sašo
    This article presents a study of the free cooling of a low-energy building using a latent-heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) device integrated into a mechanical ventilation system. The cylindrical ... LHTES device was filled with spheres of encapsulated RT20 paraffin, a phase-change material (PCM). A numerical model of the LHTES was developed to identify the parameters that have an influence on the LHTES`s thermal response, to determine the optimum phase-change temperature and to form the LHTES`s temperature-response function. The last of these defines the LHTES`s outlet-air temperature for a periodic variation of the inlet ambient-air temperature and the defined operating conditions. The temperature-response function was then integrated into the TRNSYS building thermal response model. Numerical simulations showed that a PCM with a melting temperature between 20 and 22 °C is the most suitable for free cooling in the case of a continental climate. The analyses of the temperatures in a low-energy building showed that free cooling with an LHTES is an effective cooling technique. Suitable thermal comfort conditions in the presented case-study building could be achieved using an LHTES with 6.4kg of PCM per square metre of floor area.
    Source: CISBAT 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, 28 September 2005 (Vol. 81, iss. 9, sep. 2007, str. 1078-1087)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2007
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 10119195
    DOI

source: CISBAT 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, 28 September 2005 (Vol. 81, iss. 9, sep. 2007, str. 1078-1087)
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