High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Phase change materials as a tool for climate change mitigation
Ana P. Vieira, Helena Bartolo, Geoffrey R. Mitchell & Paulo Bartolo
Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Institute Polytechnic Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal
ABSTRACT: This study focuses on increasing the efficiency of energy use in buildings by exploiting Phase
Change Materials, PCM, as energy storage systems. In particular, we focus on the implementation of phase
change materials in to the building system and how that can be achieved. We propose that the most effective
implementation will be to incorporate the PCM in to the building envelope.We describe how ...