Life Cycle Assessment of alveolar brick construction system incorporating phase change materials (PCMs)

Applied Energy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 600-608

  Castell, Albert ^a   Menoufi, Karim ^a   de Gracia, Alvaro ^a   Rincón, Lídia ^a   Boer, Dieter ^b   Cabeza, Luisa F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buildings; Energy efficiency; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Phase change materials (PCMs); Thermal energy storage (TES)

Indexed keywords

BRICK; BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEAT STORAGE; METEOROLOGY; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; THERMAL ENERGY;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIZATION; CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION RATES; GLOBAL IMPACTS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MANUFACTURING PHASE; OPERATIONAL PHASE; OVERALL BENEFIT; USING LIFE; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

LIFE CYCLE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEATING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING;

SPAIN;

EID: 84869869833     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.06.066     Document Type: Article

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