Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications

by Dinç; er, Ibrahim; Rosen, Marc A.

• ISBN13: 9780470747063
• ISBN10: 0470747064
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This new edition of Thermal Energy Storage Systems offers the up-to-date coverage needed to address recent R&D, including much of the authors' own work, which furthers more energy efficient and sustainable technological methods and solutions. New material also covers analysis, design and performance improvement as well as life-cycle costing and assessment. The authors address real-life technical and operational problems, enabling the reader to gain an understanding of the fundamental principles and the practical applications of thermal energy storage technology. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated for use as a text on alternative and renewable energy courses, with case studies updated as well as problems added at the end of each chapter. Enables the reader to gain an understanding of the fundamental principles and practical applications of thermal energy storage (TES) technology Includes state-of-the-art descriptions of many facets of TES systems and applications Summarises significant new research on energy efficient and sustainable technological methods and solutions Allows students to explore the potential of TES systems via computer simulations and to hence appreciate the technical details involved in a TES system design Significantly revised for use as a graduate text on emerging renewable and alternative energy courses, including updated case studies, worked-out examples, problems and solutions at the end of each chapter

Author Biography

Ibrahim Dincer & Mark Rosen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Ibrahim Dincer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. His research interests include energy and energy conversion management, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, drying, refrigeration and thermal energy storage. He has received numerous awards for excellence in research, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Energy Research as well as the Elsevier journal Exergy: An International Journal. He has authored or co-authored 5 books - Exergy, 2006, Elsevier, Porous Media in Modern Technologies, Springer, 2004, Refrigeration Systems and Applications, Wiley, 2003, Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications, Wiley 2002, and Heat Transfer in Food Cooling Applications, Taylor & Francis, 2003.

Mark Rosen is Professor and founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. Prior to this appointment in 2002, he was a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada for 16 years. He has also worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems, near Toronto.

With over 40 research grants and contracts and 350 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in thermodynamics and energy conversion. He was President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering from 2002 to 2004.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

General Introductory Aspects for Thermal Engineering

Energy Storage Systems

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems

Thermal Energy Storage and Environmental Impact

Thermal Energy Storage and Energy Savings

Energy and Exergy Analyses of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

Thermal Energy Storage Case Studies

Conversion Factors

Thermophysical Properties

Glossary

Index

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