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THE INTEGRATION OF THE PCM INTO LEIGHT WEIGHT BUILDING WALLS: PARAMETRIC STUDY
1 : LPMMAT Lab, Faculty of Sciences Aïn Chock, Hassan II University of Casablanca
Km 8 Route d'El Jadida B.P 5366 Maarif Casablanca -
Maroc
Phase change materials (PCMs) used in the building walls constitute an attractive way to reduce the energy consumption and to increase the thermal comfort of the occupant. In this work, the potential of Phase Change Materials (PCM) wallboards, is evaluated experimentally. The experimental study is conducted in a heated reduced scale cavity including walls with or without PCM in a laboratory conditions. The cavity is composed of removable and exchangeable walls to discuss several configurations with or without PCM. The test cell dimensions are 0.4m x 0.4m x 0.4m. The effect of the location and the double PCM layer is conducted in term of wall surface temperature. An interesting results are presented and discussed in this paper.
