Experimental Research on Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Oxide Nanofluids

2011 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 587-590
Author(s):  
Qing Yun Shou ◽  
Ru Dong Chen ◽  
Sheng Su

Nanofluid is a kind of new engineering material consisting of nanometer-sized particles dispersed in base fluid. In this study, the thermal conductivity of four kinds of nanofluids is measured by the transient hot-wire method. The thermal conductivity of nanofluids is not only influenced by volume fraction of nanoparticles, but also by other factors such as diameter and suspension stability of nanoparticles and the temperature. The experimental results show that nanofluids have substantially higher thermal conductivity than the same liquids without nanoparticles.

2013 ◽  
Vol 546 ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Yan Jiao Li ◽  
Chang Jiang Liu ◽  
Zhi Qing Guo ◽  
Qiu Juan Lv ◽  
Fang Xie

The thermal conductivity of AlN/EG nanofluids was investigated by transient hot-wire method. Experimental results indicated that the thermal conductivity of AlN/EG nanofluids increase nearly linear with the increase of nanoparticles volume fraction, and the results can’t be predicted by conditional Maxwell model. The effect of temperature on effective thermal conductivity of AlN/EG nanofluids was investigated. Result indicated that the thermal conductivity of AlN/EG nanofluids increased with the increase of temperature.


2011 ◽  
Vol 306-307 ◽  
pp. 1178-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao Jie Zhu ◽  
Wei Lin Zhao ◽  
Dong Dong Li ◽  
Jin Kai Li

Thermal conductivities of two kinds of nanofluids (SiO2-water and SiO2-ethylene glycol) were measured by transient hot-wire method at different volume fraction and temperature. Influences of volume fraction of particles and temperature on thermal conductivities of nanofluids were analyzed. The Experimental results show that thermal conductivities of nanofluids are higher than those of base fluids, and increase with the increase of volume fraction and temperature. When approximately 0.5% volume fraction of SiO2nanoparticles are added into water and ethylene glycol at the temperature 50°C, the thermal conductivities are enhanced 46.2% and 62.8% respectively.


1999 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 151-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crescenzo Festa ◽  
Aristide Rossi

AbstractAn apparatus is described for measuring the thermal conductivity of ice by the transient hot-wire method. Thermal conductivity A, is determined by tracking the thermal pulse induced in the sample by a heating source consisting of a platinum resistor. A central segment of the same platinum heating resistor acts also as a thermal sensor. A heat pulse transferred to the ice for a period of 40s gives a maximum temperature increment of about 7-14°C. In good experimental conditions, the expected reproducibility of the measurements is within ±3%. The accuracy of the method depends on whether the instrument has been calibrated by reliable standard samples, certified by absolute methods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1195-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Stanimirovic ◽  
Emila Zivkovic ◽  
Nenad Milosevic ◽  
Mirjana Kijevcanin

Transient hot wire method is considered a reliable and precise technique for measuring the thermal conductivity of liquids. The present paper describes a new transient hot wire experimental set-up and its initial testing. The new apparatus was tested by performing thermal conductivity measurements on substances whose reference thermophysical properties data existed in literature, namely on pure toluene and double distilled deionized water. The values of thermal conductivity measured in the temperature range 25 to 45 ?C deviated +2.2% to +3% from the literature data, while the expanded measurement uncertainty was estimated to be ?4%.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellann Cohen ◽  
Leon Glicksman

When the transient hot-wire method is used to measure the thermal conductivity of very low thermal conductivity silica aerogel (in the range of 10 mW/m·K at 1 atm) end effects due to the finite wire size and radiation corrections must be considered. An approximate method is presented to account for end effects with realistic boundary conditions. The method was applied to small experimental samples of the aerogel using different wire lengths. Initial conductivity results varied with wire length. This variation was eliminated by the use of the end effect correction. The test method was validated with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Standard Reference Material 1459, fumed silica board to within 1 mW/m·K. The aerogel is semitransparent. Due to the small wire radius and short transient, radiation heat transfer may not be fully accounted for. In a full size aerogel panel radiation will augment the phonon conduction by a larger amount.


Netsu Bussei ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuyuki Kitano ◽  
Katsuya Hanyuda ◽  
Eisyun Takegoshi ◽  
Masatoshi Sawada ◽  
Yoshio Hirasawa ◽  
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