Latent Heat Storage for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Zero-Carbon Communities. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering

Table of Contents

Part I. Fundamentals and Properties
1. Introduction to Latent Heat Storage Technologies for Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities
2. Fundamentals of PCMs and Thermo-physical Properties in Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities
3. Classification, Manufacture, and Selection of PCMs for Energy-efficient Buildings
4. Micro- and Macro-encapsulation Techniques for Advanced PCM Systems
5. Enhancing Heat Transfer in PCM Systems for Energy-efficient Buildings
6. Nanoscale Thermal Transport Mechanisms in PCM Systems: Advances and Applications

Part II. PCM Integration
7. PCM Integration in Building Envelopes: Mathematical Models and Performance Analysis
8. PCM Integration in Radiative Cooling/Heating Systems for Energy Efficiency
9. PCM Integration in Ground Source Heat Pumps for District Heating/Cooling: Models and Analysis
10. PCM Integration in Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaics (PV): Performance Assessment and Optimization
11. PCM Integration in Centralized Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Net-zero Communities

Part III. Applications
12. Thermal Management of PCMs in Building Envelopes and Solar PV Systems
13. Advanced Control Strategies for Thermal Energy Management with PCMs in Energy-efficient Buildings
14. Model Predictive Control of Latent Heat Storage for Renewable Self-Consumption and Grid Response
15. Metaheuristic Optimization for Design and Operation of PCM Systems in Energy-efficient Buildings
16. Machine Learning-empowered Intelligence for Stochastic Uncertainty-based Optimization in PCM Systems
17. Climate-adaptive PCM Integrated Systems: Techno-economic-environmental Performance Analysis
18. PCM-based Waste Heat Recovery for Decarbonization in Net-zero Communities

Part IV. Challenges and Future Directions
19. Prospects and Challenges in Advancing Latent Heat Storage for Energy-efficient Buildings
20. Future Directions and Emerging Research Areas in Latent Heat Storage for Zero-carbon Communities

Authors

Yuekuan Zhou Associate Proffessor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Yuekuan Zhou is an Associate Proffessor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research aims at achieving smart zero-energy and zerocarbon district energy systems for carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation, via cleaner power production, energy-efficient system design and operation, innovation in smart energy integration, multi-objective optimization on nonlinear dynamic behaviours with artificial intelligence. Asst. Prof. Zhou has contributed to numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. His current research interests include latent thermal storage, electrochemical battery, hydrogen and pumped hydro storages in zero-energy buildings, life-cycle carbon-neutral buildings, peer-to-peer energy trading and inter-city energy migration energy network with a hydrogen economy. Zhengxuan Liu Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.

Dr. Liu currently works as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Delft University of Technology. He is also the Assistant Dean of the Institute for Sustainable Urbanization and Construction Innovation at Hunan University. In 2019, he obtained a joint PhD from Hunan University (China) and the University of Lyon-ENTPE (France). In 2022, he won the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships and was honored with a Vebleo Fellowship, which recognizes researchers or scientists who have prominence and leadership in the field of science, engineering, and technology. His research interests include energy storage, zero-carbon buildings, district heating/cooling, energy system modeling, low-carbon energy transition, green construction and management. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (Springer) and the Editor of the International Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology (Avanti Publishers).

Siqian Zheng Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Dr. Zheng is a full-time post-doc researcher at City University of Hong Kong. Her areas of expertise include green sustainability, district energy systems, energy storage, energy sharing and trading, ESG. Guoqiang Zhang Professor, College of Civil Engineering; Dean, Institute of Sustainable Urbanization and Construction Innovation, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Prof. Zhang was the national candidate of the New Century Talents project, an innovative promotion plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. His areas of expertise include indoor air quality, district energy systems, and high-quality, sustainable construction, and his work has received recognition at a national and international level. Prof. Zhang is the founding scientist of the China Construction 4.0 - Sustainable Urbanization and Construction Innovation Platform, but also serves as Dean of the Institute of Sustainable Urbanization and Construction Innovation at Hunan University and as Director of the National Center for International Research Collaboration in Building Safety and Environment of the People's Republic of China.