Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media
Design and Applications
- 1st Edition - March 29, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Xiaohu Yang, Ming-Jia Li, Jinyue Yan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 9 6 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 9 7 - 4
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Request a sales quoteThermal Energy Storage in Porous Media: Design and Applications introduces the new design concepts and operation strategies for the core part of heat and mass transfer in thermal energy storage tanks. With a strong focus on design, operation and optimization, the book presents the latest advances in thermal energy storage. Opening with an introduction to latent heat thermal storage, the book then discusses porous media enhanced thermal storage classifications, methods and characterizations. Subsequent topics include energy charging/discharging system design, numerical simulation models and verification, and an analysis of various melting/solidification laws.
Finishing with a detailed presentation of applications and containing case studies and real-world examples throughout, this is an essential read for graduate students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy.
- Presents the emerging design concept of using porous media, such as metal foam, for heat transfer enhancement
- Details mechanisms and processes for the transient phenomena of thermal energy storage/release process in porous media
- Describes comparable analysis and modeling methods for the transient problem, including the volume-averaged method, pore-scale reconstruction approach, and the Lattice Boltzmann method
Graduate students, researchers and engineers interested in thermal engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy
- Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter 1 An introduction to thermal energy storage
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Thermal energy storage
- 1.2.1 Sensible heat storage
- 1.2.2 Latent heat storage
- 1.3 Classification of PCMs
- 1.3.1 Organic and inorganic PCMs
- 1.3.2 Temperature range for heat storage
- 1.4 Chemical heat storage
- References
- Chapter 2 Porous media enhanced thermal storage
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Methods of enhancing heat transfer of PCMs
- 2.2.1 Fin enhancement
- 2.2.2 Nano additive
- 2.2.3 Porous media support
- 2.2.4 Hybrids of additives
- 2.3 Classification of porous media for enhancing phase change
- 2.3.1 Metal foam
- 2.3.2 Carbon foam
- 2.3.3 Graphite foam
- 2.3.4 Expanded graphite
- 2.4 Fabrication routine on metal foam
- 2.4.1 Liquid-state processing method
- 2.4.2 Solid-state processing method
- 2.4.3 Electrodeposition method
- 2.4.4 3D printing
- 2.5 Fabrication on composite PCM with metal foam
- 2.6 Effective thermal conductivity of composite PCM with metal foam
- 2.7 Closing
- References
- Chapter 3 Energy charging/discharging system design and experimental results on a composite phase change material
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Experimental device design
- 3.3 Charging/discharging system design
- 3.4 Experimental procedures and schemes
- 3.5 Experimental uncertainty analysis
- 3.6 Experimental results discussion
- 3.6.1 Simplification of dimensions
- 3.6.2 Propagation of solid-liquid phase interface
- 3.6.3 Temperature distribution
- 3.6.4 Temperature response
- 3.7 Closing
- References
- Chapter 4 Numerical modeling on the melting phase change process: Volume-average and pore-scale methods
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Volume average method for porous media
- 4.3 Modeling fluid transport in porous media
- 4.3.1 Permeability
- 4.3.2 Inertial coefficient
- 4.3.3 Pressure drop
- 4.4 Modeling thermal transport in porous media
- 4.4.1 Heat conduction
- 4.4.2 Thermal dispersion coefficient
- 4.4.3 Interstitial heat transfer coefficient
- 4.5 Pore-scale numerical simulation (PNS)
- 4.5.1 Reconstruction of porous structure
- 4.5.2 Governing equations
- 4.6 Numerical procedure
- 4.6.1 Boundary/initial conditions
- 4.6.2 Sensitivity test
- 4.7 Model verification
- 4.7.1 Comparison of temperature
- 4.7.2 Comparison of liquid fraction
- 4.8 Case study on melting of a composite PCM in an enclosure
- 4.8.1 Solid-liquid interface
- 4.8.2 Temperature field
- 4.8.3 Velocity field
- 4.8.4 Heat transfer performance
- 4.9 Closing
- References
- Chapter 5 Melting/solidification process in the axial-gradient structure of a vertical thermal storage tank
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Design of the LHTES unit filled by graded metal foam
- 5.3 Melting/solidification with the axial-gradient porosity
- 5.3.1 Phase interface evolution
- 5.3.2 Liquid fraction
- 5.3.3 Temperature field and response
- 5.3.4 Velocity distribution
- 5.3.5 Heat storage capacity
- 5.4 Melting/solidification with the axial-gradient pore density
- 5.4.1 Phase interface evolution
- 5.4.2 Liquid fraction
- 5.4.3 Temperature field and response
- 5.4.4 Velocity distribution
- 5.4.5 Heat storage capacity
- 5.5 Optimization of axial gradient porosity
- 5.6 Closing
- References
- Chapter 6 Melting/solidification process in the radial gradient structure of a vertical thermal storage tank
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Design of the latent heat TES unit filled by graded metal foam
- 6.3 Melting/solidification with the radial-gradient porosity
- 6.3.1 Phase interface evolution
- 6.3.2 Liquid fraction
- 6.3.3 Temperature field and response
- 6.3.4 Velocity distribution
- 6.3.5 Heat storage capacity
- 6.4 Melting/solidification with radial-gradient pore density
- 6.4.1 Phase interface evolution
- 6.4.2 Liquid fraction
- 6.4.3 Temperature field and response
- 6.4.4 Velocity distribution
- 6.4.5 Heat storage capacity
- 6.5 Optimization on porosity distribution
- 6.6 Closing
- References
- Chapter 7 Melting/solidification process in the radial gradient structure of a horizontal thermal storage tank
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Design of the LHS unit filled by graded metal foam
- 7.3 Melting/solidification with radial gradient porosity
- 7.3.1 Phase interface evolution
- 7.3.2 Liquid fraction
- 7.3.3 Temperature field and response
- 7.3.4 Velocity distribution
- 7.3.5 Heat storage capacity
- 7.4 Melting/solidification features with radial gradient pore density
- 7.4.1 Phase interface evolution
- 7.4.2 Liquid fraction
- 7.4.3 Temperature field and response
- 7.4.4 Velocity distribution
- 7.4.5 Heat storage capacity
- 7.5 Optimization of radial gradient porosity
- 7.6 Comparison on energy charging/discharging performance for thermal storage tank with gradient metal foam
- 7.7 Closing
- References
- Chapter 8 Applications of metal foam enhanced thermal energy storage
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 TES in building
- 8.3 Mobile TES
- 8.4 Thermal energy storage in peak load regulation
- 8.5 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 29, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443160967
- eBook ISBN: 9780443160974
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Xiaohu Yang
Dr. Prof. Xiaohu Yang is a professor at the School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He is the Subject Editor of Elsevier’s Advances in Applied Energy and Guest Editors of Applied Energy and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. Prof. Yang has published more than 100 journal papers in the field of thermal energy storage and thermal transport in porous media.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, ChinaML
Ming-Jia Li
Dr. Prof. Ming-Jia Li, Professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. She is the associate editor for Applied Thermal Engineering and editorial board members of many prestigious journals in energy field. Prof. Li has published more than 100 journal papers in the field of solar thermal energy utilization, thermodynamics and economic analysis on large-scale energy systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Ming-Jia Li, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.JY
Jinyue Yan
Dr. Prof. Jinyue Yan, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden and now Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yan is the EiC of Elsevier’s journal Advances in Applied Energy and CellPress's journal Nexus. He has served as the editorial board members for many prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Energy Storage and etc. Prof. Yan has published more than 400 journal in the field of thermal energy utilization, renewable energy systems and CO2 mitigation.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair Professor of Energy and Buildings, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityRead Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media on ScienceDirect