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Improvement of heat transfer characteristics of cylindrical heat pipe by using SiC nanofluids
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology.
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Materials- and Nano Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1815-1053
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4381-906x
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Materials- and Nano Physics, Functional Materials, FNM.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5678-5298
2015 (English)In: Applied Thermal Engineering, ISSN 1359-4311, E-ISSN 1873-5606, Vol. 90, p. 127-135Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

An experimental study was performed to investigate the thermal performance of heat pipes using SiC/water nanofluid as the working fluid. Four cylindrical copper heat pipes containing two layers of screen mesh were fabricated and tested with water and water based SiC nanofluids with nanoparticle mass concentrations of 0.35%, 0.7% and 1.0% as working fluids. SiC nanofluids properties and characteristics are evaluated and its effects on thermal performance improvement of screen mesh heat pipes at different concentrations and inclination angles are investigated. Experimental results show that nanofluid improves the performance of the heat pipes and the thermal resistance of the heat pipe with SiC nanofluid decreases with increasing nanoparticle concentration. Thermal resistance reduction of heat pipes by 11%, 21% and 30% was observed with SiC nanofluids containing 0.35 wt.%, 0.7 wt.% and 1.0 wt.% SiC nanoparticles as compared with water. In addition, it is revealed that the inclination angle has remarkable influence on the thermal performance of the heat pipes and the lowest thermal resistance belongs to the inclination angle of 60 in all concentrations. The present investigation indicates that the maximum heat removal capacity of the heat pipe increases by 29% with SiC nanofluids at nanoparticle mass concentration of 1.0 wt.%.

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Elsevier, 2015. Vol. 90, p. 127-135
Keywords [en]
Heat pipe, Nanofluid, Thermal resistance, Inclination, Screen mesh
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Energy Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177937DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.07.004ISI: 000364246500014Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84937441415OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-177937DiVA, id: diva2:876016
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QC 20151202

Available from: 2015-12-02 Created: 2015-11-30 Last updated: 2024-03-15Bibliographically approved
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1. Investigation of Thermal Performance of Cylindrical Heatpipes Operated with Nanofluids
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Investigation of Thermal Performance of Cylindrical Heatpipes Operated with Nanofluids
2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Nanofluids as an innovative class of heat transfer fluids created by dispersing nanometre-sizedmetallic or non-metallic particles in conventional heat transfer fluids displayed the potential toimprove the thermophysical properties of the heat transfer fluids. The main purpose of this study is toinvestigate the influence of the use of nanofluids on two-phase heat transfer, particularly on thethermal performance of the heat pipes. In the first stage, the properties of the nanofluids were studied,then, these nanofluids were used as the working fluids of the heat pipes. The thermal performance ofthe heat pipes when using different nanofluids was investigated under different operating conditionsexperimentally and analytically. The influences of the concentration of the nanofluids, inclinationangles and heat loads on the thermal performance and maximum heat flux of the heat pipes wereinvestigated.This study shows that the thermal performance of the heat pipes depends not only on thermophysicalproperties of the nanofluids but also on the characteristics of the wick structure through forming aporous coated layer on the heated surface. Forming the porous layer on the surface of the wick at theevaporator section increases the wettability and capillarity and also the heat transfer area at theevaporator of the heat pipes.The thermal performance of the heat pipes increases with increasing particle concentration in all cases,except for the heat pipe using 10 wt.% water/Al2O3 nanofluid. For the inclined heat pipe, irrespectiveof the type of the fluid used as the working fluid, the thermal resistance of the inclined heat pipes waslower than that of the heat pipes in a horizontal state, and the best performance was observed at theinclination angle of 60o, which is in agreement with the results reported in the literature. Otheradvantages of the use of nanofluids as the working fluids of the heat pipes which were investigated inthis study were the increase of the maximum heat flux and also the reduction of the entropy generationof the heat pipes when using a nanofluid.These findings revealed the potential for nanofluids to be used instead of conventional fluids as theworking fluid of the heat pipes, but the commercialization of the heat pipes using nanofluids for largescale industrial applications is still a challenging question, as there are many parameters related to thenanofluids which are not well understood.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. p. 103
Series
TRITA-REFR, ISSN 1102-0245 ; 17/01
Keywords
Nanofluid, heat pipe, thermal resistance, heat transfer coefficient, evaporator, condenser, wick, porous layer, heat flux, inclination angle, thermal conductivity, viscosity
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Energy Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-202566 (URN)978-91-7729-291-3 (ISBN)
Public defence
2017-03-17, F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, Stockholm, 14:00 (English)
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QC 20170228

Available from: 2017-02-28 Created: 2017-02-28 Last updated: 2023-09-11Bibliographically approved

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