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Advanced Cooling System Using Graphite Foam Heat Exchangers for Automobile

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In this paper, we will analyze all aspects of graphite foam for cooling in heat exchanger. The primary purpose of an automobile’s cooling system is to keep the engine cool and in good working order without overheating or overcooling it. Overheating the engine will result in the melting of engine parts and, eventually, the engine seizing. And, in the event of engine overcooling, the whole engine system will shut down. The advanced cooling system was achieved by using carbon foam as the fin material for radiator construction, then replacing the ordinary centrifugal pump with a sliding vane rotary pump, and finally using nanofluids as coolants in the radiator. We will improve the cooling performance of the engine as well as the mechanical efficiency of the engine by applying these three methodologies.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India

    Kapil Rajput, Nayan Kumar Roy & Aakash Crispin Martin

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  1. Physico-Mechanical Metrology, CSIR—National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Sanjay Yadav

  2. Design and Manufacturing, PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Prashant Kumar Jain

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Pavan Kumar Kankar

  4. Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Yogesh Shrivastava

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Rajput, K., Roy, N.K., Martin, A.C. (2023). Advanced Cooling System Using Graphite Foam Heat Exchangers for Automobile. In: Yadav, S., Jain, P.K., Kankar, P.K., Shrivastava, Y. (eds) Advances in Mechanical and Energy Technology. ICMET 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1618-2_13

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