About this Research Topic
Heat and mass transfer in reactive porous media is regarded as one of the most challenging and important fundamental problems in engineering. This research area has received great attention due to its significant relevance to a wide range of engineering applications, including, but not limited to, the following: fuel cells, batteries, metal hydrates, smoldering combustion, biomass gasification, wood combustion, and gypsum board dehydration.
In this Research Topic, an analysis of heat generation, absorption, and transfer due to exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions is anticipated. For example, during adsorption and desorption of hydrogen in metal hydrates, electrochemical reaction and ohmic heating in fuel cells and batteries, and pyrolysis and oxidation in biomass gasification and smoldering combustion. All of these processes are coupled with mass transfer through porous media with significant temperature and pressure dependence. This topic is a unique and challenging fundamental problem that needs significant progress given its applications to the real world.
The goal of this Research Topic is to highlight advances made in the research area of heat and mass transfer in reactive porous media, including evolving aspects. Welcomed works include fundamental and applied studies on the efficient design of heat transfer in metal hydrates, the dehydration process of gypsum board exposed to fire, heat transfer in electrochemical energy storage and convergence devices due to electrochemical reactions, and research devoted to proposing scaling up to real conditions.
Areas of particular interest to be covered in this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Numerical and/or experimental analysis of heat transfer in metal hydrates
• Numerical and/or experimental investigations of heat transfer in fuel cells and batteries
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer in gypsum board exposed to fire
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer in wood exposed to fire
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of the heat transfer and kinetics of decomposition processes in biomass gasification
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of smoldering combustion
This Research Topic welcomes a mix of Original Research, Methods, Reviews, Perspectives, and Mini-Reviews.
In this Research Topic, an analysis of heat generation, absorption, and transfer due to exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions is anticipated. For example, during adsorption and desorption of hydrogen in metal hydrates, electrochemical reaction and ohmic heating in fuel cells and batteries, and pyrolysis and oxidation in biomass gasification and smoldering combustion. All of these processes are coupled with mass transfer through porous media with significant temperature and pressure dependence. This topic is a unique and challenging fundamental problem that needs significant progress given its applications to the real world.
The goal of this Research Topic is to highlight advances made in the research area of heat and mass transfer in reactive porous media, including evolving aspects. Welcomed works include fundamental and applied studies on the efficient design of heat transfer in metal hydrates, the dehydration process of gypsum board exposed to fire, heat transfer in electrochemical energy storage and convergence devices due to electrochemical reactions, and research devoted to proposing scaling up to real conditions.
Areas of particular interest to be covered in this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Numerical and/or experimental analysis of heat transfer in metal hydrates
• Numerical and/or experimental investigations of heat transfer in fuel cells and batteries
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer in gypsum board exposed to fire
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer in wood exposed to fire
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of the heat transfer and kinetics of decomposition processes in biomass gasification
• Modeling and/or experimental analysis of smoldering combustion
This Research Topic welcomes a mix of Original Research, Methods, Reviews, Perspectives, and Mini-Reviews.
Keywords: heat transfer, mass transfer, porous media, modeling, experimental analysis, metal hydrates, fuel cells, batteries, biomass gasification, smoldering combustion
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