Demonstration plant for cold storage in phase change materials
Research Project, 2017 – 2018

In this project phase change materials (PCM) are used in an innovative way by reducing the cooling power requirement in an office building. A PCM based thermal energy storage designed to reduce the peak power demand by approximately 25% will be evaluated in a later project. Numerical modeling is used for design and evaluation of a pilot plants built in the laboratory. The overall objective of the project is to develop design tools (missing today) for similar PCM storages as well as lead to a full-scale demonstration facility.

Participants

Pär Johansson (contact)

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Angela Sasic Kalagasidis

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Nikolaos Stathopoulos

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Pepe Tan

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Collaborations

Akademiska Hus

Göteborg, Sweden

Funding

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Project ID: NV-07079-16
Funding Chalmers participation during 2017–2018

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Sustainable development

Driving Forces

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Areas of Advance

Energy

Areas of Advance

Publications

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Latest update

11/10/2017