A tailored indoor setup for reproducible passive daytime cooling characterization.

ABSTRACT: Passive daytime cooling materials can lower global energy consumption owing to their autonomous cooling capability. Although a significant number of passive cooling materials have been developed recently, their performance characterization is still challenging. Field tests experience high variability due to uncontrollable changes in environmental conditions. Here, we design an indoor setup to characterize the performance of passive cooling materials reproducibly and independently of weather and season. Outdoor measurement conditions are approximated using a liquid-nitrogen-cooled aluminum dome, a solar simulator, and a wavelength-selective inverse sky-window filter. In contrast to outdoor measurements, the results of various reference materials show remarkable precision and repeatability.

SUBMITTER: Song Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9391927 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature