Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media: Design and Applications

Thermal Energy Storage in Porous Media: Design and Applications introduces new design concepts and operation strategies for the core part of heat and mass transfer in thermal energy storage tanks. With a strong focus on design, operation, and optimization, the book presents the latest advances in thermal energy storage. Opening with an introduction to latent heat thermal storage, the book then discusses porous media-enhanced thermal storage classifications, methods, and characterizations. Subsequent topics include energy charging/discharging system design, numerical simulation models and verification, and an analysis of various melting/solidification laws. Finishing with a detailed presentation of applications and packed with case studies and real-world examples throughout, this book is an essential read for graduate students, researchers, and engineers interested in thermal engineering, energy systems, and renewable energy.

• Presents the emerging design concept of using porous media, such as metal foam, for heat transfer enhancement
• Details mechanisms and processes for the process of transient phenomenon of thermal energy storage/release in porous media
• Describes comparable analysis and modeling methods for the transient problem, including the volume averaged method and the pore-scale reconstruction approach
• Provides the key to utilizing renewable energy through balancing the mismatch of space and time for energy supply and demand
• Harnesses renewable energy through thermal energy storage to advance clean, sustainable, and affordable solutions in alignment with UN SDGs

Dr. Prof. Xiaohu Yang is a professor at the School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He is the Subject Editor of Elsevier’s Advances in Applied Energy and Guest Editors of Applied Energy and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. Prof. Yang has published more than 100 journal papers in the field of thermal energy storage and thermal transport in porous media.

Dr. Prof. Ming-Jia Li, Professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. She is the associate editor for Applied Thermal Engineering and editorial board members of many prestigious journals in energy field. Prof. Li has published more than 100 journal papers in the field of solar thermal energy utilization, thermodynamics and economic analysis on large-scale energy systems.

Dr. Prof. Jinyue Yan, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden and now Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yan is the EiC of Elsevier’s journal Advances in Applied Energy and CellPress's journal Nexus. He has served as the editorial board members for many prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Energy Storage and etc. Prof. Yan has published more than 400 journal in the field of thermal energy utilization, renewable energy systems and CO2 mitigation.