Furthermore, it assesses the influence of these advanced working fluids on parabolic trough solar collectors, nuclear reactor systems, and air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The study summarizes the development in the correlations used to predict the thermophysical properties of the dispersion. The dispersion stability is also discussed in terms of measuring techniques, enhancement methods, and its effect on the suspension thermophysical properties. Then, it explains the different nanofluids fabrication methods.
Firstly, this work reviews the synthesis approaches of the carbon-based feedstock. For such reason, this work has been devoted towards providing a systematic review on nanofluids of carbon-base, precisely carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanodiamonds, and their employment in thermal systems commonly used in the energy sectors. The main obstacle is the dispersion stability of the nanomaterials, which can lead the attractive properties of the nanofluid to degrade with time, up to the point where they lose their effectiveness. Despite this fact, there are still some challenges that are associated with these types of fluids. Therefore, when these materials are homogeneously dispersed in a base fluid, the resulting suspension will theoretically attain orders of magnitude higher effective thermal conductivity than its counterpart. On the other hand, nanomaterials of carbon-base were proven throughout the literature to have the highest thermal conductivity among all other types of nanoscaled materials. This is because these advanced working fluids exhibit exceptional thermophysical properties, and thus making them excellent candidates for replacing conventional working fluids. Nanofluids have opened the doors towards the enhancement of many of today’s existing thermal applications performance.
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