Thermal Energy

ISBN-13: 9781032385426 / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Opis

This book presents the essentials of thermal energy storage techniques along with recent innovations made and covers in-depth knowledge of thermal energy applications. Different aspects of thermal energy storage systems are covered ranging from fundamentals to case studies.

Spis treści

I: Thermal Energy: Storage  

1.     Introduction to thermal energy and its storage materials      

2.     Latent heat storage: Materials and application

3.     Thermochemical heat storage: Materials and application

4.  Underground Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Their Applications

5.     Thermal Energy Storage 

II. Thermal Energy: advancements in applications

6.     Thermal energy storage for solar water heating, cooking, and ponds

7.     Solar thermal energy for drying and other small-scale industrial applications

8.     Waste heat recovery from industry through thermal energy storage mediums

9.     Advancement in thermal energy storage for agricultural application

10.  Testing of a Lab-scale Electrically Charged Hybrid Latent-Sensible Thermal Storage System for High-Temperature Applications

III. Thermal Energy: Global Scenario and future directions

11.  Overview of Hydrogen Production Methods from Solar Energy

12.  Efficient Hydrogen Production using Solar Thermal Energy for Sustainable future: Challenges and Perspectives

13.  Solid Particle Thermal Energy Storage for High-Temperature CSP Applications

14. Thermal management of batteries by thermal energy storage materials

Index

O autorze

Amritanshu Shukla, Ph.D., is currently working as a Professor in Physics at Lucknow University, Lucknow. He has also served as Head of the Division of Basic Sciences and Humanities and Chief Vigilance Officer of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Jais, Amethi, UP. His research interests include theoretical physics, nuclear physics, and physics of renewable energy resources, including thermal energy storage materials. He has published more than 100 research papers in various international journals and international and national conference proceedings. He has also written five international books, including Energy Security & Sustainability: Present and Future and Sustainability through Energy Efficient Buildings. He has delivered invited talks at various national and international institutes and is involved with several national as well as international projects and active research collaborations in India and abroad (such as with the University of Lund, Sweden; Kunshan University, Taiwan; Université Clermont Auvergne, France; Virginia Tech University, USA) on the topics of his research interests. Formerly he has worked at some international research institutes, namely the Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India); Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad (Department of Space, Govt. of India); University of Rome/Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy; and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA. He was awarded the prestigious young scientist award in 2004 for attending a meeting with Nobel Laureates held at Lindau, Germany.

Atul Sharma is currently a Professor in Physics at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) (set up through an Act of Parliament by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas as an Institute of National Importance on the lines of IITs). He has worked as a Scientific Officer at Devi Ahilya University, India; as a Research Assistant at Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejon, South Korea; and as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC Dr. Sharma completed his MPhil and Ph.D. from the School of Energy and Environmental Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, M.P., India. Dr. Sharma has published several edited books from various well-known international publishers and research papers in various international journals and conferences. He completed several projects as principal investigator with funding from agencies, including the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, and the Council of Science and Technology, U.P., India. He is working on the development and applications of phase change materials (PCMs), green buildings, solar water heating systems, solar air heating systems, and solar drying systems. Further, he served as a reviewer for many national and international journals, project reports, and book chapters.

Karunesh Kant is currently working as a Research Associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. He received his bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. in Energy, specializing in thermal energy storage. He was awarded the prestigious Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship by IUSSTF and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India to undertake a part of his doctoral thesis work at the Advanced Materials and Technologies Laboratory, Virginia Tech, USA. After his doctorate, he joined the Energy Technology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, as a post-doc in Sep-2018, where he worked on thermochemical energy storage material for thermal energy storage. He received a postdoctoral fellowship at University Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Clermont, France, in October 2020 to work on the mathematical modeling of nano-enhanced phase change materials for thermal energy storage. At the UCA, he also worked on multi-3D particle tracking velocimetry for indoor airflow study in large enclosures. After completing his fellowship at UCA, he joined the Advanced Materials and Technologies Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA as a research associate in September 2021. He is currently working on multiple projects funded by the US Department of Energy.