Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications
Published on 24. March 2025
300 pages
978-0-443-15496-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
- Provides essential, foundational knowledge about frosting and icing mechanisms for energy transfer, production, and use
- Details practical methods for modeling and control of frosting and icing, including analysis of appropriate use in Energy and transport applications
- Includes two collections of case studies, showing how to maximize efficiency through frosting control in sustainable energy production and infrastructure
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Long Zhang | Mengjie Song
Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications
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06/2025
Elsevier
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Content
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
