1st Edition

Phase Change Materials for Energy Management and Efficiency

By Seyed Mojtaba Sadrameli Copyright 2025
268 Pages 40 Color & 199 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

268 Pages 40 Color & 199 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

268 Pages 40 Color & 199 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book explores the prospective applications of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) in energy storage systems, thermal system temperature control, peak shifting, and energy management. It starts with definitions and a brief history of energy storage systems, followed by an exploration of different types of PCMs, encapsulation techniques, heat transfer enhancement methods, and the applications and... Read more

1. Introduction. 2. Encapsulation of Phase Change Materials. 3. Thermal Energy Storage Systems. 4. Building Energy Management Using Phase Change Materials. 5. Phase Change Materials in Electrical Appliances. 6. Phase Change Materials and Lithium-ion Batteries. 7. Application of Phase Change Materials in Textiles Thermal Management. 8. Application of Phase Change Materials in Solar Cells and Solar Collectors. 9. Application of Phase Change Materials In Transportation and Logistics. 10. Application of Phase Change Materials in Free Cooling/Heating. 11. Medical Applications of Phase Change Materials. 12. High-Temperature Application of Phase Change Materials. 13. Application of Phase Change Materials in Electronics. 14. Application of Phase Change Materials in Greenhouses.

Biography

Seyed Mojtaba Sadrameli is currently a Professor of Process Engineering at German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in Tehran, Iran, in 1980 and his master’s and doctoral degrees in Chemical Engineering from the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He joined the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) in Tehran, Iran, in 1988 and retired in 2020. His current research interests focus on the applications of phase change materials for thermal energy storage systems and the production of biofuels through the thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of biomass and plastic wastes.