TY - GEN
T1 - Study of a phase change material storage for the solar air-conditioning system of a net-zero energy hotel in a tropical region
AU - Byrne, Paul
AU - Tiffonnet, Anne Lise
AU - Filippidis, Michael
AU - Abdullah, Nasruddin
AU - Lalanne, Pascal
AU - Yatim, Ardiyansyah
AU - Estellé, Patrice
AU - Alhamid, Idrus
AU - Maré, Thierry
AU - Putra, Nandy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 International Institute of Refrigeration. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In tropical countries, the major part of energy consumption of buildings is due to air conditioning systems. Indeed, in a luxury hotel, they correspond to a share of 60%. It becomes important to set up passive or autonomous buildings and the corresponding solutions to move towards energy autonomy. Given the decreasing cost of photovoltaic (PV) cells, the proposed solution is a coupling of solar PV to a chiller. A cold storage in a phase change material (PCM) of a mixture of fatty acids (fusion temperature of 16 °C) derived from coconut oil and incorporated into a compressed expanded graphite matrix was chosen. This article explains the design of the solar air conditioning system. A TRNSYS simulation helps assess the performance improvement brought by this unique PCM storage. Then the first experimental results of the characterization of the phase change composite material implemented in the energy storage are detailed.
AB - In tropical countries, the major part of energy consumption of buildings is due to air conditioning systems. Indeed, in a luxury hotel, they correspond to a share of 60%. It becomes important to set up passive or autonomous buildings and the corresponding solutions to move towards energy autonomy. Given the decreasing cost of photovoltaic (PV) cells, the proposed solution is a coupling of solar PV to a chiller. A cold storage in a phase change material (PCM) of a mixture of fatty acids (fusion temperature of 16 °C) derived from coconut oil and incorporated into a compressed expanded graphite matrix was chosen. This article explains the design of the solar air conditioning system. A TRNSYS simulation helps assess the performance improvement brought by this unique PCM storage. Then the first experimental results of the characterization of the phase change composite material implemented in the energy storage are detailed.
KW - Air-conditioning
KW - Phase change material
KW - Solar cooling
KW - Storage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098220625&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18462/iir.iccc.2020.291647
DO - 10.18462/iir.iccc.2020.291647
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85098220625
T3 - Refrigeration Science and Technology
SP - 26
EP - 33
BT - 6th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain, ICCC 2020 - Proceedings
PB - International Institute of Refrigeration
T2 - 6th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain, ICCC 2020
Y2 - 26 August 2020 through 28 August 2020
ER -
