Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications provides a compendium of innovative case studies for mitigating impacts from frosting and icing on energy. This book first clarifies the mechanisms of frosting and icing, outlining modeling options, and control techniques. Next, a series of experimental examples show the effects of frosting at different scales of energy production, from ambient air vaporizers to wind turbines, and demonstrate how to control these for maximum efficiency. Finally, the mechanisms and mitigation of frosting are examined in a variety of infrastructure scenarios, including sustainable food storage and efficient high-speed railways. Combining the theoretical fundamentals of frosting and icing with a huge range of real-world case studies, this resource shows how to limit energy loss to these effects in key areas of engineering.
Table of Contents
Part I: Principles, Modeling, and Control Strategies for Frosting and Icing 1. Introduction 2. Nucleation of water droplets during solidification 3. Droplet condensation and solidification in energy transfer 4. Dropwise condensation freezing and frosting at subzero temperatures 5. A strategy for inhibiting heterogeneous ice nucleation 6. Icing on a cold plate surface in energy equipment 7. A frosting model using the Lattice Boltzmann method 8. A modeling prediction of frosting characteristics in heat exchangers 9. Anti-icing and de-icing technologies based on super hydrophobicity and the photothermal effect for energy efficiency optimization Part II: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Production 10. Frosting on a cold plate and heat exchanger 11. Frosting in an air source heat pump evaporator 12. High-efficiency frost-free air source heat pumps 13. Sustainable defrosting technologies for air source heat pumps 14. High-efficiency liquefied natural gas ambient air vaporizers under frost conditions 15. Integrating ice detection and mitigation for wind turbine blades 16. High efficiency frost and ice prevention of a power system Part III: Case Studies in Frosting and Icing for Energy-Efficient Infrastructure 17. Anti- and de-icing of airplanes for energy savings 18. Key technologies of a fluid-heating road snow-melting system 19. Anti-frosting, -icing, and -snowing for high-speed railways 20. Sustainable food freezing and storage technologies 21. Conclusions and future work
Authors
Long Zhang Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Long Zhang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees from both The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include frosting mechanisms on cold surfaces, frosting characteristics on finned tube heat exchangers, and frosting and defrosting performances for air source heat pump systems. He has published more than 16 papers as in the heat and mass transfer field, including 10 as the lead/corresponding author. Mengjie Song JSPS Research Fellow, Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. 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.
