Cooling performance of nocturnal radiative cooling combined with microencapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurry storage

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-130

  Zhang, Shuo ^a   Niu, Jianlei ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cooling performance; Microencapsulated phase change material slurry; Nocturnal radiative cooling; Simulation; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

AIRCONDITIONING SYSTEMS; BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION; COOLING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; COOLING PERFORMANCE; COOLING SOURCE; EMISSION REDUCTION; ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL; ENERGY SIMULATION; HONG-KONG; HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; MATLAB MODELS; MICROENCAPSULATED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; OPERATING CONDITION; PASSIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE COOLING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SLURRY STORAGES; WORKING TEMPERATURES;

EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HEAT STORAGE; HYBRID SYSTEMS; THERMAL ENERGY;

SLURRIES;

EID: 84865531319     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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