A comprehensive review on advances of oil-based nanofluids for concentrating solar thermal collector application

F Rubbi, L Das, K Habib, N Aslfattahi, R Saidur… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanofluids have exhibited noteworthy advancement as efficient working fluids in the last
decade towards the field of solar energy conversion field to deal with escalating global …

Heat and mass transfer characteristics of carbon nanotube nanofluids: a review

MNAWM Yazid, NAC Sidik, WJ Yahya - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
The pursuit of superior working fluids for heat and mass transfer systems in the industry is on
the rise, inspired by not only to maximize revenue but also to accommodate heat dissipation …

Performance optimization of a hybrid PV/T solar system using Soybean oil/MXene nanofluids as A new class of heat transfer fluids

F Rubbi, K Habib, R Saidur, N Aslfattahi, SM Yahya… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this research, a new class of nanofluid is successfully formulated from Soybean oil and
MXene (Ti 3 C 2) particles to implement as working fluid on a hybrid photovoltaic-thermal …

Stability and thermophysical properties of non-covalently functionalized graphene nanoplatelets nanofluids

WS Sarsam, A Amiri, SN Kazi, A Badarudin - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A pioneering idea for increasing the thermal performance of heat transfer fluids was to use
ultrafine solid particles suspended in the base fluid. Nanofluids, synthesized by mixing solid …

Study of synthesis, stability and thermo-physical properties of graphene nanoplatelet/platinum hybrid nanofluid

H Yarmand, S Gharehkhani, SFS Shirazi… - … Communications in Heat …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present study a new synthesis method has been introduced for the decoration of
platinum (Pt) on the functionalized graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) and also highlighted the …

Stability and thermal analysis of MWCNT-thermal oil-based nanofluids

SU Ilyas, R Pendyala, M Narahari - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have gained much attention due to excellent thermal properties.
Numerous studies have reported the incremental thermal conductivity of CNT-based …

Stability, rheology and thermal analysis of functionalized alumina-thermal oil-based nanofluids for advanced cooling systems

SU Ilyas, R Pendyala, M Narahari, L Susin - Energy conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermal oils are widely used as cooling media in heat transfer processes. However, their
potential has not been utilised exquisitely in many applications due to low thermal …

Photothermal conversion efficiency of nanofluids: An experimental and numerical study

H **, G Lin, L Bai, M Amjad, EP Bandarra Filho, D Wen - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This work investigated experimentally the photothermal conversion efficiency (PTE) of gold
nanofluids in a cylindrical tube under natural solar irradiation conditions, which was also …

Experimental study on stability and rheological behaviour of hybrid Al2O3-TiO2 Therminol-55 nanofluids for concentrating solar collectors

O Gulzar, A Qayoum, R Gupta - Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, an experimental study on rheological behaviour and stability analysis of Al 2 O
3-TiO 2 Therminol-55 hybrid nanofluid for use in solar collectors has been done. Various …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation on thermal performance of covalently functionalized hydroxylated and non-covalently functionalized multi-walled carbon …

H Alizadeh, H Pourpasha, SZ Heris, P Estellé - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study investigated the effect of adding covalently functionalized-hydroxylated multi-
walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-OH) and non-covalently-functionalized MWCNTs on …