Performance evaluation of nanofluids in solar thermal and solar photovoltaic systems: A comprehensive review

SP Tembhare, DP Barai, BA Bhanvase - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanofluids, due to their superior thermal properties, have immense applications in heat
transfer process. In view of this, nanofluids, as working fluids in solar thermal systems, have …

Review on thermal properties of nanofluids: Recent developments

SA Angayarkanni, J Philip - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanofluids are dispersions of nanomaterials (eg nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanotubes,
nanowires, nanorods, nanosheet, or droplets) in base fluids. Nanofluids have been a topic of …

A brief review on viscosity of nanofluids

PC Mishra, S Mukherjee, SK Nayak, A Panda - International nano letters, 2014 - Springer
Since the past decade, rapid development in nanotechnology has produced several aspects
for the scientists and technologists to look into. Nanofluid is one of the incredible outcomes …

Solar energy systems–potential of nanofluids

A Wahab, A Hassan, MA Qasim, HM Ali, H Babar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Global warming escalation has extended average temperature of earth beyond its safe limit.
To avert this environmental-threat, solar energy has acquired substantial attention of …

Metal oxide nanofluids: Review of formulation, thermo-physical properties, mechanisms, and heat transfer performance

KS Suganthi, KS Rajan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Nanofluids, engineered colloidal dispersions of solid nanoparticles in liquid, belong to new
category of heat transfer fluids that have evinced intense research activities in the recent …

An updated review on the influential parameters on thermal conductivity of nano-fluids

L Yang, W Ji, J Huang, G Xu - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
Nano-fluids are produced by combining one or more nano-particles in a base-fluid. Nano-
fluids, especially hybrid nano-fluids, have better thermal conductivities than simple liquids …

Experimental investigation of thermal conductivity and viscosity of ethylene glycol based ZnO nanofluids

H Li, L Wang, Y He, Y Hu, J Zhu, B Jiang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, well dispersed ethylene glycol (EG) based nanofluids containing ZnO
nanoparticles with different mass fractions between 1.75% and 10.5% were prepared by a …

Structural impact of Kerosene-Al2O3 nanoliquid on MHD Poiseuille flow with variable thermal conductivity: application of cooling process

R Ellahi, A Zeeshan, N Shehzad, SZ Alamri - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018 - Elsevier
The fuel of rocket engine can improve the cooling process of chamber and nozzle walls by
means of Kerosene− alumina nanoliquid. In particular this investigation is devoted to …

A review on thermophysical properties, preparation, and heat transfer enhancement of conventional and hybrid nanofluids utilized in micro and mini channel heat sink

G Sriharan, S Harikrishnan, HF Oztop - Sustainable Energy Technologies …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid growing technological advancement in various miniatures thermal systems
dissipate higher amount of heat. Hence, the miniature heat sinks such as mini channel and …

Application of nanofluids in plate heat exchanger: a review

V Kumar, AK Tiwari, SK Ghosh - Energy conversion and management, 2015 - Elsevier
Writing, or even making an attempt to write anything on or about Plate Heat Exchangers
(Henceforth, PHE) would be no more than a futile effort to reassert and glorify an already …