This book discusses recent work on the use of nanoparticles in energy and environment-related work. This book presents experimental, numerical, analytical, and theoretical work on the use of nanomaterials in energy and environment. This book helps to highlight cutting-edge research and is a ready reference for the researchers working in this arena of academia and industries. This book provides insights related to various forms of nanotechnological applications in green buildings, environmental and electrochemical, solar distillation systems, green energy, storage tank of the SWH system, solar concentrator system's receiver, and CFD simulations of various aspects of nanofluids/hybrid nanofluids, which are particularly useful, valuable for the betterment of society.

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Dharmendra Tripathi has been working as Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Modeling of Physiological flows) in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology BHU and M.Sc. in Mathematics from Banaras Hindu University. He has supervised 06 Ph.D. students, and 03 are working under his supervision. He has published more than 180 research papers in reputed international journals, 02 edited books in Springer, 01 edited book in CRC, 12 book chapters, and presented more than 50 papers in international and national conferences. He has delivered more than 100 lectures as Invited Speaker, Keynote Speaker, and Resource Person in various conferences, workshops, FDP, STTP, STC, refresher courses, etc. His research h-index is 49, i-10 index is 152, and his papers have more than 6800 citations. He has been listed in top 2% researchers/scientist across the world as per updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in year 2020, 2021, and 2022. He has received President Award in 2017 by the Manipal University Jaipur for outstanding contribution, Prof. PR Sharma Memorial Award from International Academy for Physical Sciences (IAPS) in 2021, and also become Associate Fellow of IAPS in 2022. He was awarded some prestigious fellowships INAE fellowship in 2015 and 2016, 2017, and 2018, postdoctoral fellowships (NBHM, Dr. D.S. Kothari and Indo-EU) in 2010, etc. His research work is focused on the mathematical modeling and simulation of CFD, biomechanics; heat transfer; nanofluids; energy systems; numerical methods; etc.
Ravi Kumar Sharma has been working at Manipal University Jaipur as Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship cell at Manipal University Jaipur. He has total of 16 years of teaching and research experience in various reputed Indian and foreign universities. He earned his Ph.D. in Thermal Engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2016. He has published more than 60 research papers in international journals of repute and presented his research work in many international conferences in India and abroad. He has also written 6 book chapters and two edited books published by Springer and Reviewer of many international journals. He has also delivered numerous invited/keynote speeches in FDP/STTP/workshop and conferences. His current area of research is renewable energy and thermal energy storage, in particular solar energy. His primary research is focused on the development of phase change materials or rapid heat transfer by enhancing their thermal conductivity. Dr. Sharma has supervised 3 Ph.Ds. successfully and currently supervising 04 Ph.Ds. He is also working on the development of carbon-based materials. His research is being cited globally, and one of his papers has been in the top downloaded articles and most cited in the journal for more than a year.
Hakan F. Öztop has been working as Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technology Faculty, F rat University, Elazig, Turkey. He got his master s and Ph.D. degrees in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in the same university. He had been in Universite De Montreal, Canada, during his Ph.D. studies. And, he worked as Postdoc Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has supervised 4 Ph.D. students and 13 master s students under his supervision. His research h-index is 87, i-10 index is 399, and his papers have more than 26000 citations. He is in Highly Citation Researchers (HCR) list since 2018. His research areas are nanofluids, CFD, energy storage, drying applications, solar energy and natural, and mixed convection heat transfer and combustion.
Rajamohan Natarajan is working as Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sohar University, Oman. He earned his Ph.D. from Annamalai University, India, and since than he has been actively working in various teaching and research institutions across the globe. He has a wide research experience in nanotechnology and environmental science. He has more than 150 research papers with h-index of 26 and i-10 index of 64. Dr. Natarajan has won various awards including vice chancellor award for outstanding research at Sohar University. He is Professional Member of various international acknowledged bodies and very active in research.

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Overview of the major types of nanomaterials used for environmental and energy applications: Challenges and prospects.- Graphene and its derivatives for desalination membrane and environmental applications.- An impact of nanotechnology for water treatment process.- Adoption of the green energy technology for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emission: Embracing the goals of the Paris agreement.- Prospects of Alcohols with Nanoparticles as an Alternative & Renewable Automotive Engine Fuels.- Battery thermal management (BTM) by using hybrid nanofluid and porous medium in the cooling channel.- Phenolic effluent treatment using advanced nanomaterials.- Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites for Heavy Metals Removal.- Advances in Solar desalination system by the application of Nanotechnology.- Mixed Convective Flow on Nanoparticle Shape Effects over a Stretching Sheet.- Entropy Generation Analysis during Heat Transfer by Darcy-Forchheimer Flow of water-based Al2O3 nanofluid over a Curved Stretchable Surface.- Numerical modelling of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) radiative transport of hybrid Ti6Al4V-AA7075/H2O nanofluids from a Riga plate sensor surface.- Heat transfer in EMHD hyperbolic tangent ternary hybrid nanofluid flow over a Darcy-Forchheimer porous wedge surface: A numerical simulation.