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Advanced Materials based Thermally Enhanced Phase Change Materials

Fundamentals and Applications

  • 1st Edition - April 12, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Hafiz Muhammad Ali
  • Language: English

Advanced Materials-based Thermally Enhanced Phase Change Materials: Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the use of advanced materials to enhance the thermal character… Read more

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Description

Advanced Materials-based Thermally Enhanced Phase Change Materials: Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the use of advanced materials to enhance the thermal characteristics of phase change materials used to maximize heat transfer rate and thermal storage capability of PCMs. The book covers the various aspects of PCMs through characteristics and preparation to heat transfer enhancement with an emphasis on prominent applications. It progresses from a brief history to a literature review, definitions, recent advances, preparation techniques, thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, performance-affecting factors, and applications and challenges of PCMs in manufacturing.

This powerful tool for researchers and energy engineers offers cutting-edge materials advances, analysis and applications of phase change materials in manufacturing.

Key features

  • Provides an in-depth explanation of phase change materials (PCMs), heat transfer, and thermal characteristics and applications
  • Covers applications and challenges for commercialization
  • Explores advanced materials such as nanoparticles, graphene, carbon nanotubes, MXene, metallic foams, and micro fins

Readership

Students, engineers, and researchers who work in the field of thermal process engineering, energy storage, thermal management, building energy saving, PCM applications and other renewable energy technologies such as solar power applications

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Phase change Materials

2. Synthesis and Characterization of PCMs

3. Thermophysical properties of PCMs

4. Advanced materials for PCMs

5. Nanoparticles Dispersed with PCMs

6. Metal foam based PCMs

7. Phase-change material (PCM) thermophysical property improvement by nanoparticles

8. Influence of Nanoparticles on Thermophysical Properties of PCMs

9. Applications of Thermally enhanced PCMs

10. Environmental and Economic impacts of PCMs utilization

11. Critical analysis of PCM performance

12. Application of Artificial Intelligence for PCMs optimization

13. Additive manufacturing-based materials for PCMs

14. Challenges and difficulties in developing Advanced materials enhanced PCMs

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 12, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Hafiz Muhammad Ali

Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) UK, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK and Editor in Chief of Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS), Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States. Recently, he has been serving as the Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, and as Director of Renewable Energy Laboratory at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Renewable Energy Laboratory, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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