Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Management and Storage: Fundamentals and Applications provides the latest advances in thermal energy applications of phase change materials (PCMs). It introduces definitions and offers a brief history, and then delves into preparation techniques, thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, performance-affecting factors, and applications and challenges of PCMs.
Features
- Provides key heat transfer enhancement and thermophysical properties features for a wide range of PCMs.
- Presents detailed parameter selection procedures impacting heat transfer.
- Reviews available prediction methods for heat transfer and thermophysical properties of PCMs.
- Discusses practical applications for enhanced thermal control.
- Explores challenges and potential opportunities for heat transfer enhancement.
This reference offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals, technologies, and current and near-future applications of PCMs for thermal energy management and storage for researchers and advanced students in materials, mechanical, and related fields of engineering.
This book provides the latest advances in thermal energy applications of PCMs. It introduces definitions and offers a brief history, and then delves into preparation techniques, thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, performance-affecting factors, and the applications and challenges of PCMs.
1. Research Trends and Perspectives of Phase Change Material:
Bibliometric Analysis.
2. Systematic Classification and Preparation Methods
of Phase Change Materials.
3. Development of Microencapsulated Phase Change
Material.
4. Physical and Thermal Properties with Measurement Methods for
Phase Change Materials.
5. Thermal Characterization Techniques of Phase
Change Materials.
6. Thermal Energy Storage in Phase Change Material A
Bibliometric Approach.
7. Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques for Phase
Change Materials.
8. Nanomaterials Enhanced Phase Change Materials.
9. Phase
Change Material Applications in Thermal Management of Electronics and
Electrical Systems.
10. Phase Change Materials Applications in Construction
and Building Materials.
11. Passive Thermal Regulation of Batteries.
12.
Application of Solid-Solid Nano-composite PCM for Thermal Management of Solar
PV Panel.
13. Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage Systems: An
Introduction.
Hafiz Muhammad Ali is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He was a postdoc at the Water and Energy Laboratory of the University of California at Merced, United States, in 2016.
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