Advanced Structured Materials

Volume 36

Series Editors

Andreas ÖchsnerLucas F. M. da SilvaHolm Altenbach

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J. M. P. Q. DelgadoEditor

Industrial and TechnologicalApplications of Transport inPorous Materials

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EditorJ. M. P. Q. DelgadoLFC-Laboratorio de Fisica dasFaculdade de Engenharia

Universidade do PortoPortoPortugal

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Preface

In the last years, several transport processes (namely, heat and mass transfer)textbooks have been published. Transport processes in porous materials is a fieldof great technological and industrial interest and the applied research in heat andmass transfer in porous materials has generated increasing interest over the pastfive decades because of the importance of porous materials and transport processesin many engineering applications. A large amount of literature has been generatedon this subject and significant advances have been made in modelling fluid flowand heat and mass transfer through porous materials.

The purpose of this book, Industrial and Technological Applications ofTransport in Porous Materials, is to provide a collection of recent contributions inthe field of heat and mass transfer in porous media and their industrial and tech-nological applications.

The main benefit of the book is that it discusses some of the most importanttopics related to transport phenomenon in engineering and their future applica-tions. It includes a set of new technological applications in the field of heat andmass transfer phenomena in a porous medium domain, such as drying technology,filtration, infrared thermography, energy, recycling, etc. At the same time, thesetopics will be encountered in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines,such as chemical, civil, agricultural, mechanical engineering, etc. The book isdivided into several chapters that intend to be a resume of the current state ofknowledge for the benefit of professional colleagues.

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Contents

Cyclone: Their Characteristics and Drying TechnologicalApplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S. R. Farias Neto, F. P. M. Farias, J. M. P. Q. Delgado,A. G. Barbosa de Lima and A. L. Cunha

Moisture Transport Process in Vegetable Fiber Composites:Theory and Analysis for Technological Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37L. H. Carvalho, E. L. Canedo, S. R. Farias Neto, A. G. Barbosa de Limaand C. J. Silva

Filtration Processes and Design of Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Antonio F. Miguel

Infrared Thermography Application in Buildings Diagnosis:A Proposal for Test Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91E. Barreira, S. S. de Freitas, V. P. de Freitas and J. M. P. Q. Delgado

Heat Transfer Behaviors of Thermal Energy Storages for HighTemperature Solar Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119A. Andreozzi, B. Buonomo, O. Manca, S. Nardini and S. Tamburrino

Recycling Polyurethane Foam and its Use as Filler in RenovationMortar with Thermal Insulating Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141V. Václavík, T. Dvorsky, V. Dirner, J. Daxner, J. Valícek,M. Harnicárová, M. Kušnerová, P. Koštial and M. Bendová

Thermal Storage Materials for Enhancing Indoor-DwellingTemperature Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Germán Ferreira, Ana M. López-Sabirón and Alfonso Aranda-Usón

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Magnetic Silica Nanocomposites as Optical Tools in BiomedicalApplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Tinkara Mastnak, Matejka Turel, Aljoša Košak, Špela Korent Urekand Aleksandra Lobnik

Simulation of Precipitate Evolution in Fe-Based Alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . 215V. V. Popov

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