Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations
Emerging technologies and new intelligent management systems will be needed to rise to the energy challenges posed by buildings today. Thermally activated building systems (TABS) are attracting growing interest on the back of their energy savings potential. The TABS studied in this article, a new pr...
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| Keyword: | TABS PCM Energy savings potential Buildings as thermal batteries Residential buildings |
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| author | Guerrero Delgado, M. Carmen |
| author2 | Sánchez Ramos, José Álvarez Domínguez, Servando Tenorio, José Antonio Cabeza, Luisa F. |
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| description | Emerging technologies and new intelligent management systems will be needed to rise to the energy challenges posed by buildings today. Thermally activated building systems (TABS) are attracting growing interest on the back of their energy savings potential. The TABS studied in this article, a new prefabricated panel designed for installation in residential building façades, was characterised by the high thermal inertia afforded by the phase change materials in its composition. The design and assessment of the potential savings derived from TABS require specific characterisation methodologies to estimate the amount of useful energy available to control the indoor environment. A two-stage approach was adopted for the TABS studied here with ``ideal'' operating control (the building is assumed to be at a constant desired temperature). The first stage involved a simplified method for characterising system behaviour based on performance maps developed from CFD simulations. Such maps can be used to quickly assess changes in system energy performance following on variations in design and operating parameters. In the second, the TABS was integrated into a building with a simplified model to assess monthly energy demand to evaluate the system potential for energy savings in representative types of Spanish single-family housing in different climate zones. The first-stage findings showed that given the system significant inertia, it discharged for several days, even when charging occurred only on the first, ensuring a wide operating range adaptable to renewable resource limitations. The analysis of potential, in turn, revealed that savings of over 40% in heating demand are possible even under the least favourable circumstances. |
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| spelling | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations Guerrero Delgado, M. Carmen Sánchez Ramos, José Álvarez Domínguez, Servando Tenorio, José Antonio Cabeza, Luisa F. TABS PCM Energy savings potential Buildings as thermal batteries Residential buildings Emerging technologies and new intelligent management systems will be needed to rise to the energy challenges posed by buildings today. Thermally activated building systems (TABS) are attracting growing interest on the back of their energy savings potential. The TABS studied in this article, a new prefabricated panel designed for installation in residential building façades, was characterised by the high thermal inertia afforded by the phase change materials in its composition. The design and assessment of the potential savings derived from TABS require specific characterisation methodologies to estimate the amount of useful energy available to control the indoor environment. A two-stage approach was adopted for the TABS studied here with ``ideal'' operating control (the building is assumed to be at a constant desired temperature). The first stage involved a simplified method for characterising system behaviour based on performance maps developed from CFD simulations. Such maps can be used to quickly assess changes in system energy performance following on variations in design and operating parameters. In the second, the TABS was integrated into a building with a simplified model to assess monthly energy demand to evaluate the system potential for energy savings in representative types of Spanish single-family housing in different climate zones. The first-stage findings showed that given the system significant inertia, it discharged for several days, even when charging occurred only on the first, ensuring a wide operating range adaptable to renewable resource limitations. The analysis of potential, in turn, revealed that savings of over 40% in heating demand are possible even under the least favourable circumstances. This study was funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the INPHASE (RTC-2015-3583-5) and DACAR (BIA2016-77431-C2-2-R), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the University of Seville under its Research Plan VI (VPPI-US). Prof. Cabeza would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality accreditation given to her research group GREiA (2017 SGR 1537). GREiA is certified agent TECNIO in the category of technology developers from the Government of Catalonia. This work is partially supported by ICREA under the ICREA Academia programme. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.101147 http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67778 |
| spellingShingle | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations Guerrero Delgado, M. Carmen TABS PCM Energy savings potential Buildings as thermal batteries Residential buildings |
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| title | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| title_full | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| title_fullStr | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| title_short | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| title_sort | Building thermal storage technology: Compensating renewable energy fluctuations |
| topic | TABS PCM Energy savings potential Buildings as thermal batteries Residential buildings |
| topic_facet | TABS PCM Energy savings potential Buildings as thermal batteries Residential buildings |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.101147 http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67778 |