Review on active building energy conservation using phase change materials

¹ College of Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China.
² Shanghai Professional Technology Service Platform on Cold Chain Equipment Performance and Energy Saving Testing Evaluation, Shanghai 201306, China
³ Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center for Cold Storage and Refrigeration Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai 201306, China
⁴ National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Food Science and Engineering (Shanghai Ocean University), Shanghai 201306, China

^* Corresponding author’s e-mail: jxie@shou.edu.cn

Abstract

With a increasing application of phase change energy storage technology in the fields of building energy conservation, refrigeration, and air conditioning, the shortcomings of traditional phase change materials (PCMs) have become important, which seriously restricts the development of phase change cold storage technology. Therefore, the new phase change materials have become a research focus in the field of phase change energy storage. The classification and characteristics of phase change materials are briefly described in the paper. In addition, the active building energy-saving are reviewed.