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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 4572-4587Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/er.7450
Keywords
electric conductivity; MWCNT; nanofluid; response surface methodology; thermal conductivity
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In this study, response surface methodology was used to optimize the thermal and electrical conductivity characteristics of a nanofluid comprising MWCNT-SG/H2O blend. The results showed that the MWCNT volume concentration and operating temperature significantly influence the thermal and electrical conductivities of the nanofluid, with experimental results confirming the optimization outcomes.
In this study, a multi-objective optimization tool, response surface methodology (RSM) was utilized to determine the optimum thermal and electrical conductivity characteristics of a nanofluid consisting of solar glycol (SG)-water (H2O) (50:50) blend with multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) for efficient solar thermal applications. A three-level factorial optimization design involved evaluating the effects of volumetric concentration and operating temperature on the electrical and thermal conductivities of MWCNT-SG/H2O nanofluid. Further several experiments were carried out to establish a second-order polynomial correlation for evaluating of electrical and thermal conductivity properties of the nanofluid. Optimization results indicated that higher operating temperature and volume concentration of MWCNT contributed to higher thermal and electrical conductivities in the MWCNT-SG/H2O nanofluid, respectively, demonstrating that the inherent physical and operational properties predominantly influence the behavior of the nanofluid. Further experimental results substantiated the optimization results with good agreement, indicating the direct effect of temperature and volume concentration on the performance of the nanofluid. Thus, the optimum conditions for achieving competent thermal and electric characteristics in MWCNT-SG/H2O nanofluid were identified to be the operational temperature of 66.2 degrees C and MWCNT volume concentration of 0.125% in SG/H2O base fluid, respectively.
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