Climatic room

As part of the Copernicus research project "Synergie", a climate room was completed in 2019 in the hall area of the ETA factory (TU Darmstadt), which will be used to investigate building-integrated flexibility measures in the area of air-conditioned rooms.

The energetic analysis of building-integrated flexibilization measures is to provide information about the utilization for electrical load flexibilization. By using demountable thermally activated wall elements of a flexibly controllable ventilation system and thermal storage units (water storage and PCM storage), load-flexible air conditioning of the building is to be made possible for certain climatic requirement scenarios and finally quantified by measurements and simulations.

The thermal activation of the wall modules can take place via different systems: Capillary tube mats or copper tube systems embedded in different substrate materials, such as concrete, clay, gypsum board or wood, as well as with the possibility of integrating phase change materials incorporated as building material additives to increase the thermal storage capacity.

The first simulatively investigated operating strategies show that load flexibility is possible with the help of pre-tempering via thermally activated wall modules.

(Text source: TU Darmstadt)