Many studies have shown that addition of nanosized particles to water enhances the critical heat flux (CHF) in pool boiling. The resulting colloidal dispersions are known in the literature as nanofluids. However, for most potential applications of nanofluids the situation of interest is flow boiling. This technical note presents first-of-a-kind data for flow boiling CHF in nanofluids. It is shown that a significant CHF enhancement (up to ) can be achieved with as little as 0.01% by volume concentration of alumina nanoparticles in flow experiments at atmospheric pressure, low subcooling , and relatively high mass flux .
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Technical Briefs
Keywords:
alumina,
boiling,
colloids,
critical points,
heat transfer,
nanoparticles,
nanofluids,
flow boiling,
critical heat flux,
colloids
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