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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 105-110Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2016.04.002
Keywords
Vegetable oils; Thermal conductivity; Heat transfer fluid; Concentrated solar power (CSP); 3omega hot wire method
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- ANRT for the PhD grant through a CIFRE program [2012/1516]
- SATT Nord, France through DIS-POTHERM Project
- AQYLON and EDF RD Company
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Following the growing need for innovative heat transfer fluids in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, the thermal conductivities of different vegetable oils (rapeseed, soybean, sunflower, palm, copra, cotton and jatropha) were measured in the temperature range from ambient to 230 degrees C relative to a reference oil. The small differences in the obtained thermal conductivities are influenced by the fatty acid composition. For balanced saturated/unsaturated fatty acids composition, the average thermal conductivity decreases from 0.167 W m(-1) K-1 at 20 degrees C to 0.137 W m(-1) K-1 at 230 degrees C. The use of a reference synthetic oil makes the calibration of the thermal probe unnecessary. The used method is based on a hot wire thermal probe with ac excitation and 3 omega lock-in detection and has a long-term relative error of 1.2% and absolute accuracy of 2%. It allows measuring in real-time, continuously and independently, the thermophysical properties of oils for thermal applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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