Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Using PCM to improve building's thermal performance |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Silva S. M., and Almeida, Manuela G. |
Abstract | Due to European Union (EU) and worldwide high energy consumption of the buildings stock, it is important to take measures to reduce these needs and, consequently, reduce the EU energy dependency as well as the greenhouse gas emissions. To improve the behaviour of the buildings, concerning thermal comfort of the occupants and energy performance, it is necessary to use thermal insulation and the buildings thermal inertia, to reduce the thermal amplitudes, the winter heat losses, the summer heat gains and to store the energy from solar gains [1, 2]. The use of phase change materials (PCM) in the buildings is a possibility to achieve this as it allows the use of latent heat storage to increase the thermal inertia without significantly increasing the building weight |
Conference Name | The 2nd International Energy Storage Conference - Sustainable Energy Storage in Buildings |
Pagination | 181–186 |
Date Published | 2013-06-19 |
Publisher | Trinity College Dublin |
Conference Location | Dublin Ireland |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/25781 |
Keywords | Buildings, Phase change materials, Thermal performance |
Rights | openAccess |
Peer reviewed | no |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt