1st Edition

Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Management and Storage Fundamentals and Applications

Edited By Hafiz Muhammad Ali Copyright 2024
    356 Pages 14 Color & 139 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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.

    1.  Research Trends and Perspectives of Phase Change Material: Bibliometric Analysis

    Rathod Manish K. and Desai Maharshi D.

     

    2. Systematic Classification and Preparation Methods of Phase Change Materials

    H.M. Teamah

     

    3. Development of Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials

    Mohammed Fareed Rahi, Pratyush Anand, Mohd Naqueeb Shaad Jagirdar, Hafiz Muhammad Ali and Hakeem Niyas

     

    4. Physical and Thermal Properties with Measurement Methods for Phase Change Materials

    S Shankara Narayanan, Apurv Yadav, and Venkata Reddy Poluru

     

    5. Thermal Characterization Techniques of Phase Change Materials

    Saeed Esfandeh and Mohammad Hassan Kamyab

     

    6. Thermal Energy Storage in Phase Change Material – A Bibliometric Approach

    S. Senthilraja, Umit Gunes, and Mohamed M. Awad

     

    7. Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques for Phase Change Materials

    Sanaz Akbarzadeh, Maziar Dehghan, and Hafiz Muhammad Ali

     

    8. Nanomaterial-Enhanced Phase Change Materials

    P. Sivasamy, S. Harikrishnan, and Hafiz Muhammad Ali

     

    9. Phase Change Material Applications in Thermal Management of Electronics and Electrical Systems

    Tehmina Ambreen, Arslan Saleem, Paula Ruiz-Hincapie, Anirudh Kulkarni, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, and Cheol Woo Park

     

    10. Phase Change Materials Applications in Construction and Building Materials

    Benjamin Duraković

     

    11. Passive Thermal Regulation of Batteries

    Bilal Lamrani, Badr Eddine Lebrouhi, and Tarik Kousksou

     

    12. Application of Solid-Solid Nano-composite PCM for Thermal Management of Solar PV Panel

    Praveen Bhaskaran Pillai, K.P. Venkitaraj, S. Suresh, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Aswin G., Abhishek R., Aravind S., Arjun P. Suresh, and Arun Kumar C. S.

     

    13. Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage Systems: An Introduction

    Ankit Bisariyaa, Rajan Kumara, Dwesh Kumar Singh, Shailendra Kumar Shukla, Pushpendra Kumar Singh Rathore, and Hafiz Muhammad Ali

    Biography

    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.