Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage by Pandey, Adarsh Kumar; Kalidasan, B.;

Long description:

Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage provides a guide to PCMs that encompasses fundamental principles, recent innovations, and interdisciplinary applications. By offering detailed insight into improved PCM performance, cost-effective production, and integration with renewable energy and smart technologies, this book equips readers with the necessary knowledge to advance energy efficiency, meet regulatory requirements and achieve sustainability goals. Written for researchers and students in the fields of material science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and energy engineering, especially those with a focus on thermal energy storage, Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage is sure to be a welcomed resource.

• Explores how to integrate PCMs into building materials for thermal regulation, thermal comfort, and for hybridizing with building cooling units, data on the thermal properties and longevity of different PCMs, and compliance with energy efficiency regulations
• Contains insights into the latest advancements in PCM technology for energy storage, methods to enhance the efficiency of renewable energy systems, and strategies for integrating PCMs into existing energy infrastructure
• Offers data on PCMs that can enhance thermal management of batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles, information on the durability and safety of PCMs in automotive applications, and case studies of successful PCM integration
• Presents information on PCMs suitable for electronics cooling, techniques for integrating PCMs into electronic devices, and performance metrics for different PCMs
• Highlights research on new PCM materials and composites, synthesis techniques for producing PCMs, and analysis of the physical and chemical properties of PCMs

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Connection between Energy & Phase Change Materials
1. Energy Storage: Towards Sustainable Future
2. Phase Change Materials as Energy storage material: Classification and Challenges

Part 2: Thermal Performance enhancement of Phase Change Materials
3. Impact of 1D, 2D, 3D nanomaterial with Phase Change Materials
4. Significance of Encapsulated Phase Change Materials
5. Shape stabilized Phase Change Materials: Solving the issue of leakage
6. Advancements in Eutectic Phase Change Materials

Part 3: Phase Change Materials and its Applications
7. Phase Change Materials in Domestic Solar Energy Systems
8. Battery Thermal Management and Automotive Applications of Phase Change Materials
9. Electronics Cooling and Thermal Management using Phase Change Materials
10. Phase Change Materials for Building Thermal Regulation
11. Phase Change Materials for Cold Storage
12. Phase Change Materials for Space Application
13. Phase Change Materials for Textile Application

Part 4: Phase Change Materials and Sustainability
14. Environmental and Sustainability Aspects of Phase Change Materials
15. Life Cycle Analysis embodied with Carbon/emission/Recycling nature of Phase Change Materials

Part 5: Futuristic Advancement associated with Phase Change Materials
16. Emerging Class of Phase Change Materials: Towards sustainable future with IOT and smart technologies