内容提要: |
Phase change material (PCM) have been explored for different applications to increase the energy efficiency and economy. However, the proper PCM selection to meet given requirements generally requires that a compromise is struck between conflicting criteria. We attempts to extend multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method to solve the PCM selection problem. Firstly, the comprehensive appraisal indexes model is established and the subjective and objective weight of the criteria are obtained based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy information method, respectively. Secondly, the optimized combination weight method is adopted to obtain the combination weight. Then, the pre-screened PCMs are ranked using technique for order performance by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS). Finally, the information retrieval is employed to justify the rankings. |