Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications

Doctor Long ZHANG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degrees from both The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests are the coupling mechanism and application research of heat and mass transfer and flow, especially the phase change problems such as frosting, icing, and the key technology research of heat pumps. He has published more than 50 SCI journal articles, including 32 ones as lead/corresponding author and 2 ESI ones. He also published 2 books and 2 chapters for Elsevier, applied for 8 Chinese patents, and made 6 invited presentations at international and Chinese conferences around frosting and icing topics. Additionally, he holds more than 10 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China.Mengjie Song is a Professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, as well as a Teli Young Scholar and the Director of the Frost Lab in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering (EI, Scopus), Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research (SCI, IF=2.746). He also works as DECRA Research Fellow at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and as a Guest Professor of Tomas Bata University in the Czech Republic. Prof. Song has worked for over a decade on the mechanism study of heat and mass transfer coupled with flow. On the topic of frosting and defrosting for air source heat pump, he proposed a series of definitions to describe thermophysical phenomena, such as even/uneven frosting/defrosting, and frosting/defrosting evenness value. His current research interests include solidification of water droplets at different scales and (anti-/de)icing for aircraft surface, and frosting and defrosting for a multi-circuit heat exchanger in refrigeration systems. He has published 122 journal articles and participated in projects from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, handling a total of over 17 million yuan in funding, including 12 as PI. Recently, he was selected for the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021 (Singleyr) list.

• Part I: Principles, Modeling, and Control Strategies for Frosting and Icing1. Introduction2. Nucleation of water droplets during solidification3. Droplet condensation and solidification in energy transfer4. Dropwise condensation freezing and frosting at subzero temperatures5. A strategy for inhibiting heterogeneous ice nucleation6. Icing on a cold plate surface in energy equipment7. A frosting model using the Lattice Boltzmann method8. A modeling prediction of frosting characteristics in heat exchangers9. Anti-icing and de-icing technologies based on super hydrophobicity and the photothermal effect for energy efficiency optimizationPart II: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Production 10. Frosting on a cold plate and heat exchanger11. Frosting in an air source heat pump evaporator12. High-efficiency frost-free air source heat pumps13. Sustainable defrosting technologies for air source heat pumps14. High-efficiency liquefied natural gas ambient air vaporizers under frost conditions15. Integrating ice detection and mitigation for wind turbine blades16. High efficiency frost and ice prevention of a power systemPart III: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Energy-Efficient Infrastructure17. Anti- and de-icing of airplanes for energy savings18. Key technologies of a fluid-heating road snow-melting system19. Anti-frosting, -icing, and -snowing for high-speed railways20. Sustainable food freezing and storage technologies21. Conclusions and future work