Advanced Materials Center hosts workshop on phase change materials for building sector

The Advanced Materials Center (CAM) at Qatar University (QU) has hosted a workshop that aims on materials used in building industry like heat insulating and heat absorbing materials, which results in the reduction of energy consumption for cooling and heating of buildings.

CAM has also been conducting many series of lectures and workshops on the recent progress in materials and technologies enhanced in various sectoral applications, inviting experts from top universities and companies working in the specific research fields.

Emphasising on the significance of the workshop, Dr. Nasser Alnuaimi, Director of Center for Advanced Materials, said that, “The workshop enhances cooperation between the research sector and industrial sector in all fields, including construction. Saving energy is one of pillars of Qatar National Vision 2030.”

Dr. Alnuaimi further added that, “By organizing such workshops and conferences we can increase the importance of materials. This workshop focuses on the latest materials used in buildings as insulation materials. The hosted experts discussed the problems and challenges related to building improvement.”

Khadija Murad, Research Assistant at Qatar University, stated that, “In this workshop, the theoretical and practical aspects of using phase-changing materials and their use in the construction sector were discussed, and the materials were discussed, such as paraffin wax, which is considered one of the most important materials that store thermal energy.”

The workshop included five lectures shared by national and international experts from both academia and private industries. Prof. Igor Krupa from CAM-QU opened the workshop with a lecture on ‘Shape stabilized Phase Change Materials for building industry’.

Dr. Mustapha Karkri from CERTES, University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, France, continued the workshop by a presentation entitled ‘Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Thermal Properties of Concrete Containing Micro-Encapsulated Phase Change Materials’.

Dr. Tomas Sedlacek from Center of Polymer Systems, Tomas Bata University, Czech Republic shared insights on ‘Rheology of polymer system as a tool for transforming ideas into commercial products’.

The topic was discussed primarily on ‘Latent heat storage technology for integration in building structures’, which was given by Prof. Milan Ostry, from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Finally, the recent development in ‘PCM Monitoring with the gSKIN U-value measurement device’ was introduced by Justin Dijkstra, from greenTEG AG, Switzerland.

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