Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications

ISBN-13: 9780443154959 / Angielski

Long Zhang; Mengjie Song

Spis treści

Part I: Principles, Modeling, and Control Strategies for Frosting and Icing 1. Introduction 2. Nucleation of water droplets during solidification 3. Droplet condensation and solidification in energy transfer 4. Dropwise condensation freezing and frosting at subzero temperatures 5. A strategy for inhibiting heterogeneous ice nucleation 6. Icing on a cold plate surface in energy equipment 7. A frosting model using the Lattice Boltzmann method 8. A modeling prediction of frosting characteristics in heat exchangers 9. Anti-icing and de-icing technologies based on super hydrophobicity and the photothermal effect for energy efficiency optimization Part II: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Production 10. Frosting on a cold plate and heat exchanger 11. Frosting in an air source heat pump evaporator 12. High-efficiency frost-free air source heat pumps 13. Sustainable defrosting technologies for air source heat pumps 14. High-efficiency liquefied natural gas ambient air vaporizers under frost conditions 15. Integrating ice detection and mitigation for wind turbine blades 16. High efficiency frost and ice prevention of a power system Part III: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Energy-Efficient Infrastructure 17. Anti- and de-icing of airplanes for energy savings 18. Key technologies of a fluid-heating road snow-melting system 19. Anti-frosting, -icing, and -snowing for high-speed railways 20. Sustainable food freezing and storage technologies 21. Conclusions and future work