1. Experimental study on the effect of Zirconia nanoparticles on solidification heat transfer characteristics: A comparison with Titania nanoparticles.
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Aslani, Hoda and Moghiman, Mohammad
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ZIRCONIUM oxide , *TITANIUM dioxide nanoparticles , *SOLIDIFICATION , *HEAT transfer , *PHASE transitions - Abstract
In this study, the influence of Zirconia (ZrO 2 ) and Titania (TiO 2 ) nanopaticles on liquid–solid phase transition of aqueous nanofluids with/without Poly vinyl pyrrolidone as surfactant are experimentally compared. A cooling generation apparatus based on the compression refrigeration cycle has been used to explore the solidification behavior of nanofluids as phase change materials. The experimental results show that ZrO 2 and TiO 2 nanoparticles considerably reduce the solidification supercooling degree of deionized water (as basefluid). Only adding 0.04 wt% ZrO 2 and TiO 2 nanoparticles to base fluid, the percentage of reduction in supercooling degree attained 81% and 65%, respectively. The results reveal that although the presence of surfactant in nanofluids reduces the supercooling degree and slightly solidification time of both ZrO 2 and TiO 2 nanofluids; but it has no influence on onset nucleation time. Comparison of ZrO 2 and TiO 2 nanofluids with/without surfactant presents that ZrO 2 provides faster solid layers formation and has more energy saving potential in storage systems due to its lower supercooling degree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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