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Document type
Book chapters


Title
Nanofluids as Advanced Coolants

Participants in the publication
S. M. S. Murshed (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
CQE
C. A. Nieto de Castro (Author)
Dep. Química e Bioquímica
CQE

Summary
Nanofluids have attracted great interest from the researchers all over the world due to their superior thermal transports and potential applications in numerous important fields. From extensive research, nanofluids are found to exhibit significantly higher thermal conductivity than that of base fluids. However, besides thermal conductivity, investigations on convective and boiling heat transfer are also very important in order to exploit nanofluids as advanced coolants. In this chapter, experimental investigations on these two major cooling features, i.e., convective and boiling heat transfer, of nanofluids are reported together with critical review of recent research progress in these important areas of nanofluids. Nanofluid development background along with their potential benefits and applications are also briefly discussed. Despite of controversies and scattered experimental data on all these thermal features of nanofluids, it is undisputed that nanofluids exhibit substantially enhanced thermal conductivity, convective heat transfer coefficient, and boiling critical heat flux which further increase with increasing concentration of nanoparticles, and these clearly evince that nanofluids can potentially be used as advanced coolants in the future.

Editor(s)
Mohammad A., Inamuddin


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Green Solvents I

Publication Identifiers
ISBN - 9789400717114

Publisher
Springer, Dordrecht



Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1712-1_14

Keywords
Heat Transfer Heat Transfer Coefficient Nusselt Number Convection

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