Enhancements of thermal conductivities with cu, CuO, and carbon nanotube nanofluids and application of MWNT/water nanofluid on a water chiller system

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Liu, MinSheng ^a   Lin, Mark ChingCheng ^a   Wang, ChiChuan ^b  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COOLING; COPPER OXIDES; DISPERSIONS; ENGINES; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; LUBRICATING OILS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; POLYOLS; REDUCTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; VOLUME FRACTION; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS; CARBON; COPPER;

CHEMICAL REDUCTION METHODS; CONDUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; STATIC MEASUREMENTS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; SYNTHETIC ENGINE OIL; TRANSIENT HOT WIRE METHOD; AIR CONDITIONERS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COOLING CAPACITY; CU NANOPARTICLES; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; ENGINE OIL; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; ONE-STEP METHODS; PHYSICAL MIXING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TWO STEP METHOD; WATER CHILLER;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84255171438     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-297     Document Type: Article

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