Heat Transfer Performance of Green Bio-Glycol Based TiO2-SiO2 Nanofluids

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.N.M. Zainon ◽  
W.H. Azmi

Abstract The dispersion of nanoparticles in conventional heat transfer fluids has been proven to improve the performance of the fluids. However, study on the heat transfer performance of hybrid nanofluids in the mixture of water and green Bio-glycol are limited in the literature. This paper presents the heat transfer performance and friction factor of green Bio-glycol based TiO2-SiO2 nanofluids. The TiO2 and SiO2 nanoparticles were dispersed in the mixture of 60:40 water: Bio-glycol (W/BG) and prepared at various concentrations up to 2.5% and composition ratios of 20:80. The experimental study on forced convection heat transfer was done under turbulent flow at constant heat flux for different operating temperatures of 30, 50 and 70 °C. The maximum heat transfer enhancements of the TiO2-SiO2 nanofluids at different bulk temperatures of 30, 50 and 70 °C were observed to be up to 128.1%, 73.95%, and 67.81%, respectively for 2.5% volume concentration. A slight friction factor escalation of the nanofluids was observed with 12% maximum increment. New correlations were developed to estimate the Nusselt number, and friction factor. The equations showed good accuracy with average deviations of less than 4.3%. As a conclusion, the employment of the eco-friendly coolant nanofluids in improving thermal performance is proven and applicable for turbulent forced convection heat transfer applications. Hence, the utilization of the green Bio-glycol based TiO2-SiO2 nanofluids at 2.5% volume concentration was recommended for various engineering applications.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Hwan Lim ◽  
Minkyu Park

Abstract As the hypervapotron (HV) heat sink is used to cool many areas inside the fusion tokamak, it is essential to understand its heat transfer performance to calculate the thermal efficiency of the power generation system. Therefore, in this study, the single-phase (SP) heat transfer performance of HV heat sink was evaluated through sub-cooled flow boiling experiments under one-side high-heat load conditions. When vapor is generated inside the heat sink, flow instability and a potential risk of reaching the critical heat flux are created. Therefore, in commercial power plants, cooling systems tend to operate in the SP regime. System parameters that can be adjusted in the power generation system include the system pressure, mass flow rate, and subcooling, and the effect of these three parameters on the heat transfer performance in the SP regime was analyzed. It was experimentally observed that the mass flow rate was the most influential variable. The prediction performance of the SP forced convection heat transfer correlations of the existing conventiaonl channel were evaluated. The results revealed that they tended to under-predict the heat transfer performance of the HV heat sink. In addition, the same trends were found when the forced convection heat transfer correlation of the curved channel was evaluated. The reasons for the former and the latter are that the heat transfer enhancement effect by the vortex flow occurring between the fins of the HV heat sink is not reflected in the correlations, and the vortex effect of the HV heat sink is not expressed as a variable. Therefore, a new vortex forced convection heat transfer correlation was developed through the newly defined Dean number of the HV heat sink. The developed correlation recorded an average error rate of 0.48%.


Author(s):  
Mohamed I. Hassan Ali ◽  
Oraib Al-Ketan ◽  
Mohamad Khalil ◽  
Nada Baobaid ◽  
Kamran Khan ◽  
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Abstract In this work, we extend our heat transfer performance study on our proposed new and novel 3D printable architected heat sinks with geometrically complex structures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling is used to assess the effect of porosity distribution, heat load, and isothermal boundary condition on the performance of the proposed TPMS-based heat sinks in active cooling using natural and forced convection heat transfer environments. The convection heat transfer coefficient, surface temperature, pressure drop are predicted using CFD method. The CFD model is validated using experimental results for the pressure drop and is verified by standard analytical results. Three TPMS structures are investigated in different orientations. Dimensionless heat transfer groups are developed to globalize the heat transfer performance of the proposed heat sinks.


Author(s):  
Khudheyer Ahmed F. ◽  
Hameed, .Raghad A.

This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical analysis to study the laminar forced convection heat transfer and flow characteristics of AL2O3–water Nano fluid with Solid particles less than 100 nm through a tube with 1m Length and 25 mm inner diameter and 30mm outer diameter contains circular fins with 30mm inner diameter and 50mm outer diameter with thickness of 2mm , investigated numerically by using finite volume method, models using ANSYS 14.5 Based on the single-phase approach, The flow of fluid is assumed to be incompressible, steady and laminar with various thermo physical properties according to volume concentration of Nano particles The Navies Stokes equations along with the energy equation have been solved by using SIMPLE algorithm Technique. The effects of different parameters such as nanoparticle volume concentration (1%, 3% and 5%), and Reynolds number are varied from (500 - 2100) for various axial locations of tube with AL2O3–water fluids and the effect of different values of velocity at the tube inlet will be studied during this paper. Where the results showed that the coefficient of heat transfer increases when the concentration of Nano fluid increase.


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