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- Title
Effect of Particle Size on Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluid.
- Authors
Chopkar, M.; Sudarshan, S.; Das, P. K.; Manna, I.
- Abstract
Nanofluids, containing nanometric metallic or oxide particles, exhibit extraordinarily high thermal conductivity. It is reported that the identity (composition), amount (volume percent), size, and shape of nanoparticles largely determine the extent of this enhancement. In the present study, we have experimentally investigated the impact of Al2Cu and Ag2Al nanoparticle size and volume fraction on the effective thermal conductivity of water and ethylene glycol based nanofluid prepared by a two-stage process comprising mechanical alloying of appropriate Al-Cu and Al-Ag elemental powder blend followed by dispersing these nanoparticles (1 to 2 vol pct) in water and ethylene glycol with different particle sizes. The thermal conductivity ratio of nanofluid, measured using an indigenously developed thermal comparator device, shows a significant increase of up to 100 pct with only 1.5 vol pct nanoparticles of 30- to 40-nm average diameter. Furthermore, an analytical model shows that the interfacial layer significantly influences the effective thermal conductivity ratio of nanofluid for the comparable amount of nanoparticles.
- Subjects
NANOFLUIDS; THERMAL conductivity; NANOPARTICLES; ETHYLENE glycol; MECHANICAL alloying; AGGLOMERATION (Materials)
- Publication
Metallurgical & Materials Transactions. Part A, 2008, Vol 39, Issue 7, p1535
- ISSN
1073-5623
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11661-007-9444-7