New equipment for testing steady and transient thermal performance of multilayered building envelopes with PCM

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3704-3709

  De Gracia, Alvaro ^a   Barreneche, Camila ^b   Farid, Mohammed M ^c   Cabeza, Luisa F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Building sector; Dynamic thermal response; Latent heat; Material testing; PCM; Thermal mass; Thermal transmittance

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING SECTORS; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; COMPOSITE WALL; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; COPPER COILS; DESIGN PHASE; GYPSUM BOARD; HEAT STORAGE CAPACITY; IRREGULAR MORPHOLOGY; MATERIAL TESTING; MULTI-LAYERED; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT FLOW; STEADY AND TRANSIENT; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; THERMAL MASS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL RESPONSE; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE; WATER BATHS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EQUIPMENT; GYPSUM; HEAT FLUX; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR BUILDINGS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 80755175922     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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