Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 321, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114287
Keywords
Nanofluid; Hybrid; Graphene; Parameter estimation; ANFIS; Optimization
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In this study, rGO/Co3O4 nanocomposite was synthesized and optimized using a Marine Predators Algorithm to obtain experimental data on thermophysical properties. The thermal conductivity and viscosity of the nanocomposite nanofluid were found to increase significantly at 60 degrees C with 0.2% particle loading.
In this study, rGO/Co3O4 nanocomposite was synthesized, characterized, and then the thermophysical properties were obtained experimentally, alter which the experimental data at varying values of temperature and particle loadings was used for optimization purposes. The study was concerned with different values of the controlling parameters. The in-situ/chemical reduction technique was used to synthesize the rGO/Co3O4 nanocomposite and then characterized with x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscope, and magnetometry. The system was studied at temperature values ranging at 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 degrees C and with particle loadings of 0.05%, 0.1%, and 0.2% wt%. The authors in this article have introduced a novel population-based algorithm that is known as Marine Predators Algorithm to obtain the optimal values of the controlling parameters (i.e., temperature and nanofluid mixture percentage) that minimize two controlled variables (i.e., density and viscosity) as well as maximize the other two controlled variables (thermal conductivity and specific heat). The rGO/Co3O4 nanocomposite nanofluid thermal conductivity and viscosity were investigated experimentally, and a maximum increment of 19.14% and 70.83% with 0.2% particle loadings at 60 degrees C was obtained. At 0.05%. 0.1%, and 02% particle loading wt%. the density increased by 0.115%, 023%, and 0.451% at a temperature of 20 degrees C; simultaneously, density increased by 0.117%%, 0235%, and 0.469% at 60 degrees C, respectively as compared to water. At 02 wt%. the maximum decreased specific heat was 0.192% and 0.194% at 20 degrees C and 60 degrees C. When compared with water, no effect was observed with an increase in temperature/: a similar trend as that of the water was followed. The optimal values were found to be at a temperature of 60 degrees C and for 0.05% particle loading of the prepared nanofluid. However, among the conducted experiments, the optimizer pointed out that the optimal experiment was the one conducted at a temperature of 60 degrees C and a nanolluid percentage at 0.05. In conclusion, the proposed methodology of modelling with an artificial intelligence tool such as an adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system technique and then determining the optimal parameters with the marine predators algorithm accomplished the goal of the study with major success. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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