Heat Transfer Characteritic Of An Evaporator With CuO Refrigerant Based Nanofluids As Working Fluid

Muhammad Izzat, Abd Halim (2012) Heat Transfer Characteritic Of An Evaporator With CuO Refrigerant Based Nanofluids As Working Fluid. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, refrigeration systems have become one of the most important systems for people's daily lives. In Malaysia, it can be seen that nearly each of the house has a room air conditioner installed in it. Based from some research, the use of air conditioners consumes about 40 % of the total of electricity used in a house. This means that the use of air conditioners consumes a lot of electricity. With the potential of the nanoparticles that have been developed in recent years, many researchers believed that nanoparticles can enhance the thermal conductivity and the dynamic viscosity of the conventional basefluid, thus increasing the heat transfer rate and the energy consumption could be reduced. In this project, the effect of the suspended nanoparticles, CuO, into the refrigerant, which can be called as nanorefrigerant, is being investigated using the mathematical modeling in terms of thermal conductivity, viscosity and heat transfer rate of the nanorefrigerant. Simulation is needed in this project to verify the Mathematical Modeling results in order to have reliable data/output. The ANSYS CFD simulation is the preferred simulation software to be used in this project.

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