Abstract
Nanofluid plays a vital role for improving heat transfer rate in nuclear power plant. Solid metals have higher thermal conductivity when it is in size of nano. Hence, the nanofluid thermal conductivity is greater than in comparison with conventional fluid like water. In this article, Al2O3–H2O based nanofluid is used to find out the heat transfer characteristics under condition of constant heat flux. Three values have been taken of nanoparticles volume concentration that are in series of 1 vol%, 2 vol%, and 3 vol% which were used in this numerical investigation. The effect of Reynolds number and weight concentration of Al2O3–H2O based nanofluid on enhancement in heat transfer were identified in this numerical investigation. The HTC is changing when concentration of nanoparticle increased, and it is also varying with rise in weight concentration of NPs. Temperature profiles of cladding and HTC profiles are plotted with nanofluids and without nanofluids.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Xu, Z.W.: Design strategies for optimizing high burnup fuel in pressurized water reactors. A Thesis for Doctor’s Degree in MIT (2003)
Choi, S.U.S.: Enhancing thermal conductivity of fluids with nanoparticles. Developments and Applications of Non-Newtonian Flows FED-vol. 231/MD-vol. 66, pp. 99–105 (1995)
Xuan, Y., Roetzel, W.: Conceptions for heat transfer correlation of nanofluid. Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 43, 3701–3707 (2000)
Fotukian, S.M., Nasr Esfahany, M.: Experimental study of turbulent convective heat transfers and pressure drop of dilute CuO/water nanofluid inside a circular tube. Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transf. 37(2), 214–219 (2010)
Fotukian, S.M., Nasr Esfahany, M.: Experimental investigation of turbulent convective heat transfer of dilute γ-Al2O3/water nanofluid inside a circular tube, submitted
Wang, X.Q., Mujumdar, A.S.: Heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids: a review. Int. J. Therm. Sci. 46(1), 1–19 (2007)
White, F.M.: Fluid Mechanics, 4th edn. McGraw-Hill, New York (1999)
Corcione, M.: Empirical correlating equations for predicting the effective thermal conductivity and dynamic viscosity of nanofluids. Energy Convers. Manage. 52(1), 789–793 (2011)
Incropera, F.P., DeWitt, D.P.: Introduction to Heat Transfer. Wiley, New York (1996)
Abbassi, Y., Talebi, M., Shirani, A.S., Khorsandi, J.: Experimental investigation of TiO2/Water nanofluid effects on heat transfer characteristics of a vertical annulus with non-uniform heat flux in non-radiation environment. Ann. Nuc. Eng. 69, 7–13 (2014)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Sharma, D. (2021). Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Al2O3–H2O Based Nanofluid Flow in Light Water Nuclear Reactor. In: Kumar, A., Pal, A., Kachhwaha, S.S., Jain, P.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering . ICRAME 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9678-0_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9678-0_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-9677-3
Online ISBN: 978-981-15-9678-0
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)