Experimental Investigation of Phase Change Material as an Insulator in Hollow Brick Wall

Abstract In this paper, an experimental study has been conducted for using a PCM as a thermal insulation material in a south wall of a room. Two identical cubic rooms were fabricated from sandwich panels except for the south wall (test wall) was built as an Iraqi domestic wall. South wall orientatio...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 1094; no. 1; p. 12065
Main Authors Abbas, Hayder M, Jalil, Jalal M, Ahmed, Sabah T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.02.2021
Subjects
Phase change materials
Room temperature
Sandwich panels
Solar radiation
Thermal insulation
Time lag
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Summary:Abstract In this paper, an experimental study has been conducted for using a PCM as a thermal insulation material in a south wall of a room. Two identical cubic rooms were fabricated from sandwich panels except for the south wall (test wall) was built as an Iraqi domestic wall. South wall orientation was chosen as the test wall due to the significant amount of solar radiation falling on it so that the study compared two test walls, a wall without PCM or not treated wall (NTW) and a wall embedded with PCM or treated wall (TW). The results show that using PCM in TW will increase the time lag by 1 hour and decrease the inner surface wall and room temperature by about 2.7 °C compared with NTW.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/1094/1/012065