Journal
THERMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 601, Issue -, Pages 33-38Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tca.2014.12.020
Keywords
Nanofluid; Phase change material; Emulsification; Heat transfer
Funding
- Aalto Energy Efficiency Research Programme (EXPECTS-project), Tekes through the Efficient Energy Use program - Strategic Centre of Science, Technology and Innovation (Cleen Ltd.)
- Academy of Finland [251748]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [251748, 251748] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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In the present work, phase change material (PCM) nanofluids were developed for heat transfer applications. Three PCMs, stearic acid, myristic acid and paraffin, were dispersed in water using two different emulsification methods; high-energy ultrasound processing and low-energy phase inversion composition (PIC). In ultrasound processing desired amounts of reagents are stirred vigorously in the presence of an optimized surfactant, while in the PIC method, spontaneous curvature of surfactants is tuned in regulation of the geometry at the interface of two immiscible phases by controlling the concentration of reagents. In this study, paraffin nanofluids with an average particle size of similar to 50 nm were produced successfully by ultrasound processing. In addition, fatty acid nanofluids were prepared using the PIC procedure, in which slow water addition and partial neutralization of fatty acids were utilized to achieve the phase inversion. Stable stearic acid nanofluids were successfully prepared with optimized surfactant composition, whereas all myristic acid emulsions tested were unstable. For both of the fatty acid nanofluids, combination of ionic and nonionic surfactant resulted in best stability. Thermal and structural properties of the prepared nanofluids were also characterized. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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