This book discusses generalized applications of energy storage systems using experimental, numerical, analytical, and optimization approaches. The book includes novel and hybrid optimization techniques developed for energy storage systems. It provides a range of applications of energy storage systems on a single platform. The book broadly coversthermal management of electronic components in portable electronic devices; modeling and optimization aspects of energy storage systems; management of power generation systems involving renewable energy; testing, evaluation, and life cycle assessment of energy storage systems, etc. This book will serve as a reference resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.

Discusses generalized applications of energy storage systems using experimental and optimization approaches Includes novel and hybrid optimization techniques developed for energy storage systems Covers thermal management of electronic components in portable electronic devices

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Mathew VK is currently working as Assistant Professor at MIT ADT University. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. He has published several articles in Scopus and SCI-listed Journals. His areas of research interest are thermal management systems, computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer and numerical methods, battery cooling systems, hybrid electric, vehicle, non-conventional energy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Tapano Kumar Hotta is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT Vellore. He has pursued his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras in the area of Electronic Cooling. He has around 15 years of academic and research experience in different institutes of repute. His areas of research are in a broad sense include active and passive cooling of electronic devices, heat transfer enhancement, optimization of thermal systems, etc. He has around 40 publications to his credit in journals and conferences of international repute. He has guided more than 30 UG students and a dozen PG students in their project work. Two students have obtained their degrees leading to a Ph.D. under his guidance in the field of heat transfer enhancement. He has filed a patent on "Innovative Design of PCM Based Cascade Heat Sinks Integrated with Heat Pipes for the Thermal Management of Electronics". He is a member of the editorial board and a reviewer for various international journals and conferences related to the field of heat transfer.

Hafiz Muhammad Ali is currently working as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom, in 2011. He was a postdoc at the Water and Energy Laboratory of the University of California at Merced, the USA in 2015-16. He is a noted faculty member having thermal sciences, heat transfer, and solar energy as his major areas of interest. Over several years, he supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students, and his work produced more than 260 papers featured in various reputed international journals with citations over 11000 and H-Index of 56. He is the recipient of highly cited research (HCR) award 2021 by Clarivate Analytics. He also represented his institution and country at several international and national conferences as an invited and keynote speaker. His other research interests include electronics cooling, condensation, nanofluids, heat transfer devices, and thermal management.

Senthilarasu Sundaram is currently working as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Renewable Energy at the Environmental and Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He has a total of 18 years' research experience in solar energy, material, and system. His research focus is on third-generation photovoltaics involving different technologies, as well as on the applications of nanostructured oxide materials and developing flexible solar cells on metal and polymer foils. In addition, he is concentrating on fundamental scientific studies of new materials, thin films, and low-cost device concepts. He is also a member of the renewable energy department in the College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences. He has over 127 journal article publications.

Inhalt
A review on phase change material - metal foam combinations for battery thermal management systems.- Review on characteristic features of Jet Impingement and its application in solar air heaters.- Energy conservation in heat treatment furnace by using low thermal conductivity material.- Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Methods and Materials.- High temperature heat pumps integrated with thermal energy storage for heating and cooling applications.- Energy Storage and Conversion Efficiency with Lithium-Ion Battery Test Station Design.