TY - JOUR
TI - A system to monitor and model the thermal isolation of coating compounds applied to closed spaces
AU - Montes Frank Florez
AU - Fernández De Córdoba Pedro
AU - Calvet José Luis Higón
AU - Conejero J. Alberto
AU - Poza-Luján José-Luis
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2020
VL - 24
IS - 3
SP - 1885
EP - 1892
PT - Article
AB - Smart control systems and new technologies are necessary to reduce the energy consumption in buildings while achieving thermal comfort. In this work, we monitor the thermal evolution inside a scale reduced closed space whose exterior and/ or interior wall faces have been painted with a coating solution. Based on the experimental data obtained under different environmental conditions, a simulator was developed and tuned to reproduce the thermodynamic behavior inside the spaces, with a relative error of less than 3.5%. This simulator lets us also estimate energy savings, temperature, and flux behavior under other conditions.