Investigation of phase change materials on Australian residential building energy efficiency

Yunlong Ma; Keivan Bamdad; Sara Omrani; Robin Drogemuller

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_62

Investigation of phase change materials on Australian residential building energy efficiency

Yunlong Ma, Keivan Bamdad, Sara Omrani, Robin Drogemuller

Western Sydney University

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This paper investigates the effectiveness of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) in building envelopes on the energy efficiency of Australian residential buildings. Using DesignBuilder simulation, a representative Australian single storey residential house was modelled with different PCM application strategies under a range of Australian climates. In this case study, PCMs could achieve 2.3-16.3% annual electricity savings depending on types of PCMs and climates except in Australian Climate Zone 1 (Darwin). Simulation results also indicated that applying PCMs on external walls would improve energy efficiency performance more than applying them to the ceiling, and PCMs on longer solar exposed walls performed better than those applied on shorter solar exposed facades. It was also found that the energy efficiency performance would decrease when the PCM melting point was outside the thermostat range of the particular climate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment
Editors	Liangzhu L. Wang, Hua Ge, Zhiqiang J. Zhai, Dahai Qi, Mohamed Ouf, Chanjuan Sun, Dengjia Wang
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	583-593
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811998225
ISBN (Print)	9789811998218
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_62
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Ma, Y., Bamdad, K., Omrani, S., & Drogemuller, R. (2023). Investigation of phase change materials on Australian residential building energy efficiency. In L. L. Wang, H. Ge, Z. J. Zhai, D. Qi, M. Ouf, C. Sun, & D. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (pp. 583-593). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_62

Ma, Yunlong ; Bamdad, Keivan ; Omrani, Sara et al. / Investigation of phase change materials on Australian residential building energy efficiency. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment. editor / Liangzhu L. Wang ; Hua Ge ; Zhiqiang J. Zhai ; Dahai Qi ; Mohamed Ouf ; Chanjuan Sun ; Dengjia Wang. Singapore : Springer, 2023. pp. 583-593

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