Advanced Materials-based Thermally Enhanced Phase Change Materials: Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the use of advanced materials to enhance the thermal characteristics of phase change materials used to maximize heat transfer rate and thermal storage capability of PCMs. The book covers the various aspects of PCMs through characteristics and preparation to heat transfer enhancement with an emphasis on prominent applications. It progresses from a brief history to a literature review, definitions, recent advances, preparation techniques, thermophysical properties and heat transfer characteristics with mathematical models, performance-affecting factors, and applications and challenges of PCMs in manufacturing.
This powerful tool for researchers and energy engineers offers cutting-edge materials advances, analysis and applications of phase change materials in manufacturing.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Phase change Materials
2. Synthesis and Characterization of PCMs
3. Thermophysical properties of PCMs
4. Advanced materials for PCMs
5. Nanoparticles Dispersed with PCMs
6. Metal foam based PCMs
7. Phase-change material (PCM) thermophysical property improvement by nanoparticles
8. Influence of Nanoparticles on Thermophysical Properties of PCMs
9. Applications of Thermally enhanced PCMs
10. Environmental and Economic impacts of PCMs utilization
11. Critical analysis of PCM performance
12. Application of Artificial Intelligence for PCMs optimization
13. Additive manufacturing-based materials for PCMs
14. Challenges and difficulties in developing Advanced materials enhanced PCMs
