Thermal performance investigation of door opening and closing processes in a refrigerated truck equipped with different phase change materials

Refrigerated transport has been of interest to the scientific and industrial community for centuries. So far, temperature fluctuations during loading/unloading have a major challenge. It is therefore essential develop solutions ensure quality safety transported foodstuffs against as well reduce energy consumption environmental impact commercial refrigerated trucks. The aim current work evaluate aerothermal behavior truck in two configurations (door open/closed) using different phase change materials throughout its operating cycle (charge discharge). results obtained show that integration PCM our system can significantly cooling capacity required when door opened lead significant savings by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.