Thermal Energy Storage (eBook)

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.

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 General Introductory Aspects for Thermal Engineering

2 Energy Storage Systems

3 Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems

4 Thermal Energy Storage and Environmental Impact

5 Thermal Energy Storage and Energy Savings

6 Energy and Exergy Analyses of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

7 Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

8 Thermal Energy Storage Case Studies

Appendix A Conversion Factors

Appendix B Thermophysical Properties

Appendix C Glossary

Index