A review on phase change materials for thermal energy storage in buildings: Heating and hybrid applications

Khaireldin Faraj (1) , Mahmoud Khaled (1) , Jalal Faraj (1) , Farouk Hachem (1) , Cathy Castelain (2)

1 LIU - Lebanese International University
2 LTeN - Laboratoire de Thermique et d’Energie de Nantes

Phase change materials (PCMs) gathered the attention of researchers and architects world-widely for its prodigious benefits in increasing the share of renewable energy, providing desired thermal comfort in buildings, achieving valuable reduction in energy consumption and contributing to the diminish of environmental pollution. Buildings, being the most demanding sectors of energy broadly, especially for heating and cooling purposes, are being exposed to the PCM technology by several applications. The current article reviews recent literature on the use of PCMs as thermal energy storage systems (TES) in buildings for heating and hybrid applications. A summary of the used PCMs is also presented with their respective applications, incorporation methods and basic thermo-physical properties are presented. It was shown that the applications of heating are promising, however, research of combined applications and combined PCMs are still required, and more experimental analysis of commercial buildings, in priority, are lacking.

Domaines: Thermique [physics.class-ph]

Khaireldin Faraj, Mahmoud Khaled, Jalal Faraj, Farouk Hachem, Cathy Castelain. A review on phase change materials for thermal energy storage in buildings: Heating and hybrid applications. International Conference on Emerging and Renewable Energy : Generation and Automation (ICEREGA'18), Oct 2018, Sousse, Tunisia. ⟨hal-02375775⟩