Frosting and Icing for Efficient Energy Use in Engineering Applications

Long Zhang, Mengjie Song

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443154966
• Subtopic: Energy
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Introduction of frosting and icing
• Chapter 2. A general model for the icing characteristics of water droplets on cold surfaces
• Chapter 3. Lattice Boltzmann simulation of droplet icing process with dynamical interface capturing
• Chapter 4. Freezing of a multicomponent drop: characteristics and mechanism
• Chapter 5. Droplet impact and icing behaviors on flat surfaces
• Chapter 6. Simulation of the impact and icing processes of water droplets on spheres
• Chapter 7. Growth distribution characteristics of micro-scale trapped air bubbles in ice and their impact on the freezing process
• Chapter 8. Research on mechanism and measurement technology of frost formation of micro water frosting
• Chapter 9. Frost formation and growth on cold surfaces: a review on experimental studies
• Chapter 10. A sustainable defrosting technology for air source heat pump systems
• Chapter 11. High-efficiency frost-free air source heat pumps
• Chapter 12. Atomization equipment for simulating icing environment
• Chapter 13. The thermodynamic evolution of landfast ice in the polar regions
• Chapter 14. Ice prediction technology and applications for typical stationary and moving surfaces
• Chapter 15. Ultrasonic application on ice detection and removal
• Chapter 16. Experimental investigation of thermal deicing characteristics and energy efficiency
• Chapter 17. Dynamic ice-melting characteristics of carbon dioxide laser irradiation under natural convection
• Chapter 18. Conclusions and future work
• Index