Enhancement of critical heat flux in nucleate boiling of nanofluids: a state-of-art review

Nanoscale Research Letters, Dec 2011

Nanofluids (suspensions of nanometer-sized particles in base fluids) have recently been shown to have nucleate boiling critical heat flux (CHF) far superior to that of the pure base fluid. Over the past decade, numerous experimental and analytical studies on the nucleate boiling CHF of nanofluids have been conducted. The purpose of this article is to provide an exhaustive review of these studies. The characteristics of CHF enhancement in nanofluids are systemically presented according to the effects of the primary boiling parameters. Research efforts to identify the effects of nanoparticles underlying irregular enhancement phenomena of CHF in nanofluids are then presented. Also, attempts to explain the physical mechanism based on available CHF theories are described. Finally, future research needs are identified.

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Enhancement of critical heat flux in nucleate boiling of nanofluids: a state-of-art review

Hyungdae Kim 0 0 Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyung Hee University , Yongin, Gyunggi 446-701, Republic of Korea Nanofluids (suspensions of nanometer-sized particles in base fluids) have recently been shown to have nucleate boiling critical heat flux (CHF) far superior to that of the pure base fluid. Over the past decade, numerous experimental and analytical studies on the nucleate boiling CHF of nanofluids have been conducted. The purpose of this article is to provide an exhaustive review of these studies. The characteristics of CHF enhancement in nanofluids are systemically presented according to the effects of the primary boiling parameters. Research efforts to identify the effects of nanoparticles underlying irregular enhancement phenomena of CHF in nanofluids are then presented. Also, attempts to explain the physical mechanism based on available CHF theories are described. Finally, future research needs are identified. - Introduction Nanofluids are a new class of nanotechnology-based heat-transfer fluids, engineered by dispersing and stably suspending nanoparticles (with dimensions on the order of 1-50 nm) in traditional heat-transfer fluids. The base fluids include water, ethylene, oil, bio-fluids, and polymer solutions. A variety of materials are commonly used as nanoparticles, including chemically stable metals (e.g., copper, gold, silver), metal oxides (e.g., alumina, bismuth oxide, silica, titania, zirconia), several allotropes of carbon (e.g., diamond, singlewalled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, fullerence), and functionalized nanoparticles. Nanofluids originally attracted great interest because of their abnormally enhanced thermal conductivity [1]. However, recent experiments have revealed additional desirable features for thermal transfer. Key features of nanofluids that have thus far been discovered include anomalously high thermal conductivity at low nanoparticle concentrations [2,3], a nonlinear relationship between thermal conductivity and concentration for nanofluids containing carbon nanotubes [3], strongly temperature-dependent thermal conductivity [4], and a significant increase in nucleate boiling critical heat flux (CHF) at low concentrations [5,6]. State-of-the-art reviews of major advances on the synthesis, characterization, thermal conductivity, and single-phase and two-phase heat transfer applications of nanofluids can be found in [7-17]. However, the available reviews have paid much more attention to thermal properties and single-phase convective heat transfer than to twophase heat transfer, and even reviews including twophase heat transfer have only briefly touched upon important new research on the significant increase of CHF in nanofluids. This paper presents an exhaustive review and analysis of CHF studies of nanofluids over the past decade. The characteristics of CHF enhancement in nanofluids are systemically reviewed according to the effects of boiling parameters. Efforts to reveal the key factors leading to nanofluid CHF enhancement are summarized. Attempts to understand the precise mechanism of the phenomenon on the basis of existing CHF theories are also presented. Finally, future research needs are identified in the concluding remark. CHF enhancement in nanofluids You et al. [5] first demonstrated that when a nanofluid is used instead of pure water as a coolant, CHF can be significantly enhanced. Their test results for pool boiling of alumina-water nanofluid showed that the CHF increased dramatically (approximately 200% increase) at low concentrations (less than 0.01 vol.%) compared with pure water. Significant enhancement of CHF was further Table 1 Summary of studies on CHF of nanofluids in pool boiling Reference Nanofluids Concentration Test heater 0.001-0.025 g/l Cu plate (10 10 mm2) SS wire (j = 0.381 mm) Cu disk (j = 10 and 15 mm) NiCr wire (j = 0.64 mm) NiCr wire (j = 0.32 mm) Cu plate (9.5 9.5 mm2) Ti wire (j = 0.25 mm) confirmed for SiO2 particles in water by Vassallo et al. [6]. However, the causes of CHF increases in nanofluids could not be explained using traditional CHF correlations. Since the publication of these pioneering works, extensive experimental studies have been conducted in this area over the past decade. Studies of CHF increase in nanofluids are summarized in Tables 1 and 2 according to pool and flow conditions, respectively. In this section, characteristics of CHF enhancement in nanofluids that have been identified from an exhaustive review of published studies over the past decade will be summarized in terms of the effects of primary Cu (10-20 nm) in water Table 2 Summary of studies on CHF of nanofluids in flow boiling Al2O3 (47 nm) in water Al2O3 (25 nm) in water parameters as follows: Influence of nanoparticle concentration CHF enhancement in nanofluids is strongly dependent on nanoparticle concentration. Figure 1 shows the experimental results of You et al. [5] and Kim et al. [18] for the CHF of nanofluids in pool (...truncated)


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Hyungdae Kim. Enhancement of critical heat flux in nucleate boiling of nanofluids: a state-of-art review, Nanoscale Research Letters, 2011, pp. 415, Volume 6, Issue 1, DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-415