starting date: June 2016
ending date: May 2019
This project aims to create an active multidisciplinary lab provided with the skills and equipments necessary to study new passive TES systems incorporating vertical stacks of rectangular cavities filled with PCMs. Furthermore, the team aims to create a dynamic organization scheme to cover all the research steps necessary for the development of new TES systems, from the thermophysical characterization of the materials to the final evaluation of the thermal performance of some prototypes.
The team also aims to be better positioned to participate in worldwide inter-laboratory studies and to join a network of scientists that today exchange not only samples to be characterized, but also researchers to potentiate the research carried out.
The team will put great efforts in the development and validation of new ideas to provide new TES systems to the construction sector and, simultaneously, in the publication and dissemination of the research carried out. It is believed that this project will give new and relevant contributions to the present knowledge in the covered research fields.
