Review on the Phase Change Materials in Wood for Thermal Regulative Wood-Based Products

Wood is an excellent building material or component that has been used all over the world. The rise in energy consumption worldwide, particularly sector, led to development of diverse methods overcome this problem. Embedding phase change material, PCM, into wood researched as one most effective alternatives controlling thermal loads wood, it can store and release latent heat at a specific temperature range. Due increasing interest, article reviews PCM including some research on recent efforts made by other researchers regarding topic. This also provides insight problems associated with wood-based products incorporated PCM. From three groups namely organic, inorganic, eutectic mixture, organic mixture were commonly chosen successfully impregnated structure. Carbonization delignification help increase stabilization wood. Adding sometimes decreases its strength, thus balancing between regulative performance industrial requirements needed fabricate fully functional thermal-regulative