Reducing Space Conditioning Loads and Improving Thermal Comfort in Residential Buildings with Phase Change Material Wall Coatings
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Phase change materials (PCMs) can passively store and release thermal energy. When integrated into building materials, PCMs can smooth the temperature response of a building, reducing peak temperatures and space conditioning loads as well as improving thermal comfort. The objective of this research was to assess the potential for reducing space conditioning loads and improving thermal comfort by integrating PCMs into interior wall coatings for residential buildings. Experimental testing was conducted to assess the thermal performance of 16 PCM coatings in a test chamber heated by a light rack. Over the test duration, PCM coatings reduced the air and surface temperatures by up to 0.4°C and 1.3°C, respectively, compared to non-PCM coatings. Building energy simulations were conducted for a single floor of a residential building in six locations across Canada. PCM coatings reduced annual space conditioning loads and improved thermal comfort by up to 39% and 44%, respectively.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it