Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals and Engineering Applications explores the development of supercritical fluids in energy sectors and their application in energy conversion systems, chemical, power, and material industries.
Looking beyond a conventional chemical-focused approach, the book provides critical support to a broad spectrum of professional fields and lays a solid foundation for the industrial application and technological innovation of supercritical fluid technologies. It begins with the basic physical laws and thermophysical basis of supercritical fluids in energy sectors before building on these principles to discuss basic heat transfer, flow properties, and the governing laws of flow and transportation of heat, mass, and energy conversions. Through the presentation of experimental evidence, numerical models, and industrial case studies, readers will gain insight into the unique physical mechanisms underlying supercritical fluid phenomena and their practical implications for energy efficiency, carbon neutrality, and technological innovation.
This book is a valuable resource for professional engineers in energy sectors as well as graduate students and researchers studying supercritical fluids, energy conversion, and environmentally friendly systems.
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Lin Chen is a full professor and the Director of Heat and Mass Transfer Research Center at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research topics include supercritical fluids, CO2 power cycles and systems, and advanced thermos-physical measurement techniques. He has authored over 300 journal papers and/or conference presentations, and books/chapters. Dr. Chen is one of the leading Chairs of IAEA CRP (2022-2027) for supercritical fluid research, the Chairman of The Series International Conference on Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles and Comprehensive Energy Systems, and an AWC (Assembly of World Conferences) member of World Conference on ExHFT. He was the recipient of Young Scholar Award of the AUTSE (2018), Research Paper Award of the Visualization Society of Japan (2022) and Chen-Xuejun Award of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics (2024).