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Feasibility of Al2O3/Water Nanofluid in a Compact Loop Heat Pipe

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Effect of low volume concentration of water-based aluminium oxide (Al2O3) nanofluids on the thermal performance and entropy generation of a compact loop heat pipe (CLHP) with the flat square evaporator of dimensions (34 mm × 34 mm × 19 mm) is experimentally investigated. The heat input and volume concentration are varied from 30 W to 500 W and 0.03%, 0.09% and 0.12%, respectively. The effects of performance parameters such as heat supplied and nanoparticle concentration on the entropy generation, thermal resistance, evaporator and condenser heat transfer coefficients (HTC) are analysed. Results showed that the formation of thin porous deposition on the wick and wall plays a key role in the enhancement of heat transfer of the CLHP. The heat transfer coefficient was found to be enhanced by 24.42% in the evaporator, and the thermal resistance was reduced by about 21.29%. The entropy generation is also reduced by 12.36% when Al2O3 nanofluid is used as the working fluid. Adding a little quantity of Al2O3 nanoparticles enhanced the operating range of CLHP by 12% when compared with that of the base fluid.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, 641114, India

    Emerald Ninolin Stephen, Lazarus Godson Asirvatham, Arulanatham Brusly Solomon & Pitchaimuthu RamKumar

  2. Department of Physics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641046, India

    Kandasamy Ramachandran

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Stephen, E.N., Asirvatham, L.G., Ramachandran, K., Solomon, A.B., RamKumar, P. (2021). Feasibility of Al2O3/Water Nanofluid in a Compact Loop Heat Pipe. In: Akinlabi, E., Ramkumar, P., Selvaraj, M. (eds) Trends in Mechanical and Biomedical Design. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4488-0_40

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