Latent Heat Storage for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Zero-Carbon Communities (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering)

Zhou, Yuekuan (EDT)/ Liu, Zhengxuan (EDT)/ Zheng, Siqian (EDT)

Woodhead Publishing（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 410 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780443273643

Full Description

Latent Heat Storage for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Zero-Carbon Communities serves as an up-to-date reference guide on the rapid progress the field is experiencing while keeping up with the much-required transformative initiatives to improve buildings' energy performance worldwide. To lay the foundations, the book opens with coverage of the fundamentals of phase-change materials, including their thermo-physical properties, nanoscale thermal transport mechanisms, encapsulation techniques, and heat transfer enhancement methods. It goes on to explore the integration of latent heat storage solutions in building envelopes or solar photovoltaics and heating/cooling systems, using mathematical models and performance analysis to discuss thermal management aspects for net-zero energy buildings and zero-carbon community concepts. The volume then delves into practical application of the most advanced, artificial intelligence-powered tools for system modeling and simulation, demand-side management control strategies, and metaheuristic optimization approaches. It finally concludes with an overview of technical challenges and emerging research areas which evidence academic and industry communities' persistent interest in the future directions of topics interconnected with the sustainable development of the built environment.

Contents

Part I. Fundamentals and Properties
1. Introduction to Latent Heat Storage Technologies for Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities
2. Fundamentals of PCMs and Thermo-physical Properties in Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities
3. Classification, Manufacture, and Selection of PCMs for Energy-efficient Buildings
4. Micro- and Macro-encapsulation Techniques for Advanced PCM Systems
5. Enhancing Heat Transfer in PCM Systems for Energy-efficient Buildings
6. Nanoscale Thermal Transport Mechanisms in PCM Systems: Advances and Applications

Part II. PCM Integration
7. PCM Integration in Building Envelopes: Mathematical Models and Performance Analysis
8. PCM Integration in Radiative Cooling/Heating Systems for Energy Efficiency
9. PCM Integration in Ground Source Heat Pumps for District Heating/Cooling: Models and Analysis
10. PCM Integration in Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaics (PV): Performance Assessment and Optimization
11. PCM Integration in Centralized Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Net-zero Communities

Part III. Applications
12. Thermal Management of PCMs in Building Envelopes and Solar PV Systems
13. Advanced Control Strategies for Thermal Energy Management with PCMs in Energy-efficient Buildings
14. Model Predictive Control of Latent Heat Storage for Renewable Self-Consumption and Grid Response
15. Metaheuristic Optimization for Design and Operation of PCM Systems in Energy-efficient Buildings
16. Machine Learning-empowered Intelligence for Stochastic Uncertainty-based Optimization in PCM Systems
17. Climate-adaptive PCM Integrated Systems: Techno-economic-environmental Performance Analysis
18. PCM-based Waste Heat Recovery for Decarbonization in Net-zero Communities

Part IV. Challenges and Future Directions
19. Prospects and Challenges in Advancing Latent Heat Storage for Energy-efficient Buildings
20. Future Directions and Emerging Research Areas in Latent Heat Storage for Zero-carbon Communities