High-Temperature Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage

Dr. S. Harikrishnan is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kings Engineering College, Chennai, India. He received his B.E. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras, in 2002, and both his M.E. in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Engineering and Ph.D. at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, in 2007 and 2015 respectively. He has 22 years of experience in teaching and 16 years of research experience. Dr. Harikrishnan is an active researcher in the fields of phase change materials, nanofluids, and supercapacitors. He has published many papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He is an editorial team member in two Scopus-indexed journals and one SCI-E journal, and has served as the panel session chair, reviewer, and Managing Guest Editor for international conference proceedingsDr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) UK, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK and Editor in Chief of Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS), Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom. He was a postdoc at Water and Energy Laboratory of University of California at Merced, United States. Recently, he has been serving as the Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, and as Director of Renewable Energy Laboratory at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A. D. Dhass received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Energy Engineering and Solar Energy in 2005, 2009, and 2018 respectively, from Anna University, Chennai, India. Since 2020, he has been working as Assistant Professor in the Indus Institute of Technology and Engineering (IITE), Indus University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. His areas of research include Solar energy, Heat transfer, and phase change materials.

• 1. Introduction to Thermal Energy Storage2. Importance of High-Temperature Energy Storage3. PCMS For High-Temperature Storage4. Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity5. Heat Capacities of Solid and Liquid Phases6. Measurement of Thermal Properties7. Containers for High-Temperature PCMS8. Numerical Study on the Performance of PCM9. TES Efficiency10. TES Applications