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HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 54, Issue 10, Pages 2907-2916Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-018-2335-1
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- Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MoHE) under UM MoHE High Impact Research Grant (HIRG) scheme [UM.C/HIR/MoHE/ENG/40]
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Nanofluid is a new class of engineering fluid that has good heat transfer characteristics which is essential to increase the heat transfer performance in various engineering applications such as heat exchangers and cooling of electronics. In this study, experiments were conducted to compare the heat transfer performance and pressure drop characteristics in a plate heat exchanger (PHE) for 30 degrees and 60 degrees chevron angles using water based Al2O3 nanofluid at the concentrations from 0 to 0.5vol.% for different Reynolds numbers. The thermo-physical properties has been determined and presented in this paper. At 0.5vol% concentration, the maximum heat transfer coefficient, the overall heat transfer coefficient and the heat transfer rate for 60 degrees chevron angle have attained a higher percentage of 15.14%, 7.8% and 15.4%, respectively in comparison with the base fluid. Consequently, when the volume concentration or Reynolds number increases, the heat transfer coefficient and the overall heat transfer coefficient as well as the heat transfer rate of the PHE (Plate Heat Exchangers) increases respectively. Similarly, the pressure drop increases with the volume concentration. 60 degrees chevron angle showed better performance in comparison with 30 degrees chevron angle.
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