Location
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
Event Website
https://event.ceri2020.exordo.com/
Start Date
27-8-2020 10:30 AM
End Date
27-8-2020 11:45 AM
Description
According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development there is currently a stock of more than 80 million buildings in Europe built between 1950 and 1975, a period during which energy performance was not considered in building design. To enable governments to comply with the European Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings, strategies are required to improve the energy efficiency of these buildings. Using the mass of a building to store or dissipate heat can reduce the demand on the auxiliary heating and/or cooling systems and hence reduce the overall energy demand of the building.
Previous research by the authors has shown that the incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs) into concrete enhances its thermal storage capacity by up to 50%. Precast cladding panels formed with PCM enhanced concrete have been developed and manufactured in Ireland as part of a European research project. Three full-scale demonstration huts were constructed using the panels and instrumented to record both internal thermal data and local climate data over an 18 month period. Analysis of this data showed that when the internal air temperature fluctuated above and below the phase change temperature of the PCM within a 24 hour period, the PCM-concrete composite is effective at reducing the air temperature in the huts and mitigating against overheating.
Recommended Citation
Niall, Dervilla; West, Roger P.; Kinnane, Oliver; and Hegarty, Richard, "Modelling the Thermal Behaviour of a Precast PCM Enhanced Concrete Cladding Panel" (2020). Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2020. 1.
https://sword.cit.ie/ceri/2020/5/1
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Civil Engineering Commons, Construction Engineering and Management Commons, Environmental Engineering Commons, Geotechnical Engineering Commons, Hydraulic Engineering Commons, Structural Engineering Commons, Transportation Engineering Commons
Modelling the Thermal Behaviour of a Precast PCM Enhanced Concrete Cladding Panel
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development there is currently a stock of more than 80 million buildings in Europe built between 1950 and 1975, a period during which energy performance was not considered in building design. To enable governments to comply with the European Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings, strategies are required to improve the energy efficiency of these buildings. Using the mass of a building to store or dissipate heat can reduce the demand on the auxiliary heating and/or cooling systems and hence reduce the overall energy demand of the building.
Previous research by the authors has shown that the incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs) into concrete enhances its thermal storage capacity by up to 50%. Precast cladding panels formed with PCM enhanced concrete have been developed and manufactured in Ireland as part of a European research project. Three full-scale demonstration huts were constructed using the panels and instrumented to record both internal thermal data and local climate data over an 18 month period. Analysis of this data showed that when the internal air temperature fluctuated above and below the phase change temperature of the PCM within a 24 hour period, the PCM-concrete composite is effective at reducing the air temperature in the huts and mitigating against overheating.
https://sword.cit.ie/ceri/2020/5/1
