Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6681824 | Applied Energy | 2017 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
The results for the room measurements show that the indoor thermal comfort of the rooms, present long periods of discomfort namely in overheating. However, it was proved that the PCM application in one of the rooms lead to an overheating reduction of 7.23% representing a PCM efficiency of 35.49%. After the optimization process an overheating reduction of about 34% was attained by the use of PCM in one of the rooms. Regarding the economic analysis of the use of the PCM for cooling demand reduction, a payback time of 18Â years was attained.
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Authors
António Figueiredo, Romeu Vicente, José Lapa, Claudino Cardoso, Fernanda Rodrigues, Jérôme Kämpf,