Phase-change material building mass contains phase-change matenals. It can decrease air-conditioning load and indoor temperature fluctuations, and improve comfort degree in summer because of thermal storage property o...Phase-change material building mass contains phase-change matenals. It can decrease air-conditioning load and indoor temperature fluctuations, and improve comfort degree in summer because of thermal storage property of phase-change material. Thereby, the scale, initial investment and operational cost of air-conditioning system decrease effectively. The indoor surroundings improve. In this paper, suitable phase-change material used in architecture and combination mode between phase change material and architectural material were studied. By considering the properties of materials, such as phase-change temperature, phase-change latent heat, thermal conductivity and expansion coefficient, phase-change materials were selected and evaluated. Combination mode between phase-change material and architectural material were provided. The influence of phase-change material structure on thermal performance in room and energy-saving effect were analyzed and compared with traditional structure without phase-change material. It is proved that phase-change material structure is feasible in the practical engineenng. These provide the basis for developing phase-change material building mass.展开更多
A two-dimensional mathematical model was built to describe the melting process of cylindrical basalt particle bed in a crucible. The melting processes with respect to the factors of thermal boundary conditions and par...A two-dimensional mathematical model was built to describe the melting process of cylindrical basalt particle bed in a crucible. The melting processes with respect to the factors of thermal boundary conditions and particle sizes of basalt were simulated by using the numerical method (FDM). The governing equations were discretized in tridiagonal matrix form and were solved by using the tridiagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA) as well as the alternative direction implicit (ADI) solver. The temperature distribution, the moving law of the two dimensional phase-change boundaries, the thermal current distribution were given through the numerical simulation. The results provided a theoretical basis for deciding heating procedure, for evaluating power import and controlling furnace temperature and for predicting basalt melting states etc. In the experiment, an electrical furnace was designed based on the computations. It has been proved that the simulation results are reasonably coincident with the experimental data.展开更多
文摘Phase-change material building mass contains phase-change matenals. It can decrease air-conditioning load and indoor temperature fluctuations, and improve comfort degree in summer because of thermal storage property of phase-change material. Thereby, the scale, initial investment and operational cost of air-conditioning system decrease effectively. The indoor surroundings improve. In this paper, suitable phase-change material used in architecture and combination mode between phase change material and architectural material were studied. By considering the properties of materials, such as phase-change temperature, phase-change latent heat, thermal conductivity and expansion coefficient, phase-change materials were selected and evaluated. Combination mode between phase-change material and architectural material were provided. The influence of phase-change material structure on thermal performance in room and energy-saving effect were analyzed and compared with traditional structure without phase-change material. It is proved that phase-change material structure is feasible in the practical engineenng. These provide the basis for developing phase-change material building mass.
文摘A two-dimensional mathematical model was built to describe the melting process of cylindrical basalt particle bed in a crucible. The melting processes with respect to the factors of thermal boundary conditions and particle sizes of basalt were simulated by using the numerical method (FDM). The governing equations were discretized in tridiagonal matrix form and were solved by using the tridiagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA) as well as the alternative direction implicit (ADI) solver. The temperature distribution, the moving law of the two dimensional phase-change boundaries, the thermal current distribution were given through the numerical simulation. The results provided a theoretical basis for deciding heating procedure, for evaluating power import and controlling furnace temperature and for predicting basalt melting states etc. In the experiment, an electrical furnace was designed based on the computations. It has been proved that the simulation results are reasonably coincident with the experimental data.
