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TEC 20
Phase Change Materials – Overview
Phil Sheppard
Centre for Sustainable Engineering, UK
This paper introduces phase change materials (PCMs) as an alternative energy storage methodology to current latent heat exchange systems commonly used in buildings such as thermal mass. A potential application in light weight construction offers passive energy exchange in the absence of fabric energy storage.