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Optical and thermal performance of glazing units containing PCM in buildings: A review
Abstract
Abstract Glazing units are important for providing passive solar gain and air ventilation in buildings, but their thermal performance is very poor compared to other building components, which results that energy loss from building envelope becomes much more drastic when the glazing area is large. Incorporating phase change material (PCM) in the glazing unit is an effective approach to increase its thermal performance. The glazing unit containing PCM can absorb part of the solar radiation for thermal energy storage while letting the visible radiation enter the indoor ambient for daylighting, which results in reduction of the temperature fluctuations and improvement of the thermal comfort of indoor occupants. A lot of researchers investigated optical and thermal performance of window systems containing PCM in buildings. However, there is a lack of published research review including numerical methods of optical and thermal performance and physical parameters of PCM used in the glazing units, especially for the optical performance of glazing units containing PCM. The present work reviews the experimental and simulation researches on the optical and thermal performance of glazing units containing PCM and discusses the employed research methods, mathematical models and important conclusions drawn. Finally, the challenges and future works of glazing units containing PCM are addressed.
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“Therefore, and bearing in mind that it has different melting points, it can be used to enhance indoor thermal performance by using it in double-glazed units, thereby reducing the energy demand of the building [28].”
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“Eutectic phase change materials involve a combination of two or more types of phase change materials, which usually consist of organic-organic (Capric-laurie/Lauric palmitic/Myristic-stearic), inorganic-inorganic (LiOH-KOH/MgKCl 2 -KCl/BACl 2 -KCl-NaCl) and inorganic-organic (Napthalenebenzoicacid/Urea NH 4 Br) materials [28].”
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“Some inevitable drawbacks of paraffin limit its application in practice, such as low thermal conductivity (about 0.2À0.4W/ m K and high volume expansion during phase transition [22,28].”
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“Paraffin due to its crucial properties consisting of a high heat of fusion, fluctuated stage change temperature, high phase change enthalpy, zero super cooling characteristics, lower vapour pressure, and being chemically inert (without corrosion and toxicity), with constant conductivity cyclic stability has been applied for energy storage [26,28].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Li, D., Wu, Y., Wang, B., Liu, C., & Arıcı, M.
- Affiliations
- Northeast Petroleum University (CN)
- Kocaeli Üniversitesi (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Li, Dong
- Venue
- Construction and Building Materials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-02
- Volume
- 233
- Pages
- 117327
- ISSN
- 0950-0618 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2981757296
- Cited by
- 216
- References
- 152
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 32
- FWCI
- 15.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Construction and Building Materials (publishedVersion)
- Kocaeli Üniversitesi - AVESİS (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Northeast Petroleum University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Phase Change Materials Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Solar Energy Systems and Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Keywords
- phase change materials, glazing units, windows, optical performance, thermal performance, solar energy storage, daylighting, thermal comfort, thermal simulation model
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