Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer
- 1st Edition - March 17, 2023
- Editor: Hafiz Muhammad Ali
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 9 0 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 5 1 3 - 0
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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Request a sales quotePhase 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.
- 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
Materials Scientists and Engineers in R&D and academia working in industry and academia, Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses related to mechanical engineering
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
- No. of pages: 324
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323919050
- eBook ISBN: 9780323985130
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Hafiz Muhammad Ali
Hafiz Muhammad Ali is currently working as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States, during 2015-16. Dr. Ali is a noted faculty member having thermal sciences, heat transfer, and solar energy as his major areas of interest. His research interests include electronics cooling, condensation, nanofluids, heat transfer devices, and thermal management. He is the recipient of the “Best Young Research Scholar Award” for 2017 in the Engineering category, conferred by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan at the 7th HEC Outstanding Research Award Ceremony. He also had the honor of receiving HEC’s Best Research Paper Award (2013/2014) and Research Productivity Award by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology (2016-17). Apart from his academic duties, he is actively involved with editorial duties in several international journals, notably Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer), International Journal of Thermofluids (Elsevier), Journal Thermal Science, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaRead Phase Change Materials for Heat Transfer on ScienceDirect