Overview
- Presents an overview of current research studies, performed in different countries, focused on PCM-enhanced building envelopes
- Reviews most common PCMs used in manufacturing of building products
- Includes the PCM and PCM product database presenting PCMs from the best-known world’s manufacturers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Engineering Materials and Processes (EMP)
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About this book
Presenting an overview of the use of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) within buildings, this book discusses the performance of PCM-enhanced building envelopes. It reviews the most common PCMs suitable for building applications, and discusses PCM encapsulation and packaging methods. In addition to this, it examines a range of PCM-enhanced building products in the process of development as well as examples of whole-building-scale field demonstrations. Further chapters discuss experimental and theoretical analyses (including available software) to determine dynamic thermal and energy performance characteristics of building enclosure components containing PCMs, and present different laboratory and field testing methods. Finally, a wide range of PCM building products are presented which are commercially available worldwide. This book is intended for students and researchers of mechanical, architectural and civil engineering and postgraduate students of energy analysis, dynamic design of building structures, and dynamic testing procedures. It also provides a useful resource for professionals involved in architectural and mechanical-civil engineering design, thermal testing and PCM manufacturing.
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Book Title: PCM-Enhanced Building Components
Book Subtitle: An Application of Phase Change Materials in Building Envelopes and Internal Structures
Authors: Jan Kośny
Series Title: Engineering Materials and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14286-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14285-2Published: 20 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37544-1Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14286-9Published: 07 May 2015
Series ISSN: 1619-0181
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 271
Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Structural Materials, Building Materials, Building Types and Functions, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology