Ibrahim Dinçer & Marc A. Rosen 
Thermal Energy Storage 
Systems and Applications

The ability of thermal energy storage (TES) systems to facilitate
energy savings, renewable energy use and reduce environmental
impact has led to a recent resurgence in their interest. The second
edition of this book offers up-to-date coverage of recent energy
efficient and sustainable technological methods and solutions,
covering analysis, design and performance improvement as well as
life-cycle costing and assessment. As well as having significantly
revised the book for use as a graduate text, the authors address
real-life technical and operational problems, enabling the reader
to gain an understanding of the fundamental principles and
practical applications of thermal energy storage technology.

Beginning with a general summary of thermodynamics, fluid
mechanics and heat transfer, this book goes on to discuss practical
applications with chapters that include TES systems, environmental
impact, energy savings, energy and exergy analyses, numerical
modeling and simulation, case studies and new techniques and
performance assessment methods.

Table of Content

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 General Introductory Aspects for Thermal Engineering

2 Energy Storage Systems

3 Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Systems

4 Thermal Energy Storage and Environmental Impact

5 Thermal Energy Storage and Energy Savings

6 Energy and Exergy Analyses of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

7 Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Thermal Energy Storage Systems

8 Thermal Energy Storage Case Studies

Appendix A Conversion Factors

Appendix B Thermophysical Properties

Appendix C Glossary

Index

About the author

Ibrahim Dincer & Mark Rosen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Ibrahim Dincer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. His research interests include energy and energy conversion management, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, drying, refrigeration and thermal energy storage. He has received numerous awards for excellence in research, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Energy Research as well as the Elsevier journal Exergy: An International Journal. He has authored or co-authored 5 books – Exergy, 2006, Elsevier, Porous Media in Modern Technologies, Springer, 2004, Refrigeration Systems and Applications, Wiley, 2003, Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Applications, Wiley 2002, and Heat Transfer in Food Cooling Applications, Taylor & Francis, 2003.

Mark Rosen is Professor and founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. Prior to this appointment in 2002, he was a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada for 16 years. He has also worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems, near Toronto.

With over 40 research grants and contracts and 350 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in thermodynamics and energy conversion. He was President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering from 2002 to 2004.