Title Heat and cold storage with PCM : an up to date introduction into basics and applications / Harald Mehling, Luisa F. Cabeza

Published Berlin : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages) : illustrations Series Heat and mass transfer, 1860-4846 Heat and mass transfer. Contents Basic thermodynamics of thermal energy storage -- Solid-liquid phase change materials -- Determination of physical and technical properties -- Heat transfer basics -- Design of latent heat storages -- Integration of active storages into systems -- Applications in transport and storage containers -- Applications for the human body -- Applications for heating and cooling in buildings Summary Annotation The subject of the book is heat and cold storage with PCM (phase change material) . Currently there are plenty of publications in journals on different aspects of PCM technology, but there is no introduction into basics and applications available for a beginner or for somebody who works in one aspect of PCM technology and wants to get a general overview. The book is intended to fill this gap for researchers, graduate, and PhD students, mainly within science and engineering. The book summarizes and explains the most important basics and applications in a single text. The focus is on the explanation of general concepts and their discussion on selected examples. To go beyond an introduction, each chapter supplies many references with focus on such references that serve as an introduction into a special aspect, interesting websites, and other similar information. The book also contains many derivations of basic equations, examples, graphs and tables. To make reading easier, the appendix also includes a list of the most important definitions. As an introduction, the chapters cover all aspects starting from basic theoretical background to materials analysis and modification, storage design, storage integration, and different application examples. Special focus is on applications in buildings, because this is where the potential to apply PCM is very high Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record In Springer eBooks Subject Cold storage. Heat engineering. Mass transfer. Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Chemical engineering. Engineering. Renewable energy sources. Hydraulic engineering. Chemical Engineering Engineering Renewable Energy cold storage chemical engineering. engineering. hydraulic engineering. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical. Mass transfer. Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Cold storage. Heat engineering. Chimie. Science des matériaux. Cold storage Heat engineering Mass transfer Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Form Electronic book Author Cabeza, Luisa F., 1967- ISBN 9783540685579 354068557X 9783540685562 3540685561

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