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Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer

  • 1st Edition - March 17, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Hafiz Muhammad Ali
  • Language: English

Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer focuses on how to maximize the heat transfer rate and thermal storage capability of PCMs. Various aspects are covered, including prepar… Read more

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Description

Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer focuses on how to maximize the heat transfer rate and thermal storage capability of PCMs. Various aspects are covered, including preparation of phase change materials to heat transfer enhancement and characteristics with an emphasis on prominent applications. The book is designed in such a manner to cover the broad definitions, introduction, brief history, preparation techniques, thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, performance-affecting factors and the applications and challenges of PCMs. This handbook will prove invaluable to readers interested in a resource with the latest information in this emerging field.

Key features

  • Provides key heat transfer enhancement and thermophysical properties features for a wide range of phase change materials
  • Presents detailed parameter selection procedures impacting heat transfer
  • Reviews available prediction methods for heat transfer and thermophysical properties of phase change material
  • Includes practical applications of phase change materials for enhanced thermal control
  • Explores practical challenges and opportunities of phase change materials potential in heat transfer enhancement

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers in R&D and academia working in industry and academia, Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses related to mechanical engineering

Table of contents

1. Introduction and history of phase change materials’ heat transfer

2. Thermal conductivity enhancement of phase change materials

3. Heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials

4. Heat transfer in metal foam infused PCM: A case study

5. Phase change materials (PCMs) applications in solar energy systems

6. Phase change material application in heat sink: Microencapsulated PCM

7. Battery thermal management using phase change material

8. Phase change materials applications in buildings

9. Evolution of heat transfer in phase change material

10. Phase change materials for battery thermal management

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 21, 2023
  • 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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