Performance of shape-stabilized phase change material wallboard with periodical outside heat flux waves

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2113-2121

  Zhou, Guobing ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Xu, Hong ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decrement factor; Energy storage; Phase transition keeping time; Shape stabilized phase change material; Thermal performance; Time lag

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CONTROL VOLUMES; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; CRITICAL VALUE; DECREMENT FACTOR; ENTHALPY EQUATION; EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FOAM CONCRETES; INNER SURFACES; LATENT HEAT OF FUSION; MELTING TEMPERATURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUTER SURFACE; SHAPE-STABILIZED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; SINUSOIDAL HEAT FLUXES; SMALL FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE WAVE; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TIME LAG; TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

CONCRETE; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME;

EID: 79951513591     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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