Hybrid Nanofluids for Solar Thermal Process Heating Applications
Abstract
Experiments with turbulent flow of hybrid nano-oils are reported to mitigate the dearth of experimental data for assessing the developed generalized Nusselt number correlation, deduced using separation approach. A controlled, Joule-type, uniform heating condition is adopted for simplicity. The significant findings are (a) the Nusselt number enhanced with the addition of nano-particles, (b) the addition of nanoparticles increases the pressure drop and (c) the the generalized Nusselt number correlations are applicable for hybrid nano-oils within the reported uncertainty 15%
Keywords
Experiment, Hybrid nano-oil, Nusselt number, Turbulent flow