ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION OF A PCM WALL COVERED WITH NOVEL TRIPLE GLASS

Research was conducted to investigate the performance of phase change material (PCM) walls for solar spaceheating. The PCM walls were consisted of brick walls, plasterboards containing PCMs and novel triple glazingunits. South façade of a test room was constructed using the PCM walls for heating the test room with solarthermal energy. The overall efficiency of the PCM walls was experimentally determined on a monthly basis. Inaddition to experimental analysis, a theoretical energy analysis of the PCM walls based on 10-year meanmeteorological data was performed to provide a more general conclusion about the performances of the PCMwalls. Besides, reduction in CO2 from the test room owing to PCM wall was also calculated. Theoretical analysisresults showed that, the reduction of CO2 emission on a monthly basis varied from 57 to 7% during the heatingperiod. Heating period is from October through May. Reduction of CO2 emission was 16% on an annual basis.