Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Heat Storage in Building Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D1: Advanced Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 January 2022) | Viewed by 8021
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HVAC&R; alternative refrigerants; low GWP; energy efficiency; thermal energy storage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Heat Storage in Building Applications”. PCMs offer important opportunities to increase the thermal efficiency of buildings by reducing the peak power for heating and cooling, allowing better management of shift peak in heating and cooling or optimizing the coupling with renewable energies.
This Special Issue will deal with formulations of PCMs, their properties and their applications in both heating and cooling plants and building construction materials. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to the following:
- PCMs materials, also with nanostructures (NEPCMs)
- Thermal and physical properties of PCMs and NEPCMs
- Heat transfer
- Technologies to apply PCMs (e.g., microencapsulation, embedding in construction materials, etc.)
- Applications of PCMs in buildings (construction materials (passive), thermally activated constructions, glazing and shading devices, combined with ventilation and air-conditioning)
- Heat storage and renewable energy systems
- Energy analysis
Dr. Sergio Bobbo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Phase change materials (PCMs)
- Nanostructure-enhanced PCMs (NEPCMs)
- Thermophysical properties
- Heat storage
- Buildings
- Energy efficiency