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Author(s): Peter Teertstra
Method: Guarded Heat Flow Meter
Thermal adhesives that contain large proportions of high thermal conductivity filler materials are extremely useful in electronics and manufacturing. Due to the importance of these fillers it is crucial to ...
Keywords: adhesive, electronics, filler materials, GHF, Guarded heat flow meter, Heat Transfer, Microelectronics, Thermal Conductivity, thermal paste
Read MoreAuthor(s): Konstantinos D. Antoniadis, Marc J. Assael, William A. Wakeham, Xing Zhang
Method: Transient Hot Wire
Multiple studies claiming the usefulness of nanofluids for the enhancement of heat transport have been proven ill-founded. Although they have significantly raised thermal conductivities, there is an inerrant increase in ...
Keywords: Heat Transfer, heating, liquid, Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, Phase change, Thermal Conductivity, THW, Transient Hot-Wire, viscosity
Read MoreAuthor(s): D. Konstadinou, I. N. Metaxa, K. Kakosimos, Marc J. Assael
Method: Transient Hot Wire
The use of the transient hot wire method has previously displayed that the thermal conductivity of fluids can be significantly increased by introducing nano-particles. The paper discusses the known methods ...
Keywords: Carbon Nanotube, Copper, Finite Element Method (FEM), Heat Transfer, Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, Thermal Conductivity, THW, Transient Hot-Wire
Read MoreAuthor(s): Arturo de Risi, Fabrizio Iacobazzi, Gianpiero Colangelo, Marco Milanese, Mauro Lomascolo
Method: Hot Disk TPS
This article examined how a variety of mechanisms (layering, Brownian motion, clustering, ballistic phonon motion, thermal boundary resistance, and mass difference scattering) affect the thermal conductivity of alumina based nanofluid. ...
Keywords: Alumina, ballistic phonon motion, Brownian Motion, clustering, Heat Transfer, Hot Disk, layering, mass difference scattering, microfluid, Nanofluid, Phonon scattering, Thermal Boundary Resistance, Thermal Conductivity, Transient plane source (TPS)
Read MoreAuthor(s): K.S. Reddy, T. K. Mallick, Vijay Mudgal
Method: Hot Disk TPS
This article reviewed the use of phase change materials (PCM) as thermal energy storages (TES) as they can be used to substitute large-scale energy demand and assist both economically and ...
Keywords: Heat Transfer, Heat transfer enhancement, Latent Heat Storage, phase change materials, solar energy, Thermal Conductivity, thermal energy storage, Transient plane source (TPS) technique
Read MoreAuthor(s): Osamu Tadai, Tatsuhiro Sugimoto, Wataru Tanikawa, Weiren Lin, Yohei Hamada
Method: Hot Disk TPS
This study looked to analyze temperature effects on thermal transport properties of dry granite, gabbro, marble, and sandstone samples. A Hot Disk TPS 1500 instrument was used with a high temperature ...
Keywords: gabbro, Granite, Heat Transfer, high temperature chamber, high temperature conditions, Hot Disk, Marble, Rock, sandstone, Thermal Conductivity, Transient plane source (TPS) method
Read MoreAuthor(s): Alexander Urquhart, Stephen Bauer
Method: Hot Disk TPS
Crushed salt can be used as a backfill in salt repositories to bury and conduct heat away from radioactive waste in salt repositories. Since crushed salt compacts during reconsolidation, its ...
Keywords: backfill, crushed salt, Heat Transfer, Hot Disk, reconsolidation, Rock, salt, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Properties, Transient plane source (TPS) method
Read MoreAuthor(s): Shuangfeng Wang, Tengqing Liu, Xuanyou Li, Yanxin Hu
Method: Hot Disk TPS
This study focused on the heat transfer enhancement mechanism of micro oscillating heat pipes (MOHP) using self-rewetting fluids (SRWF). SRWFs are believed to improve the thermal performance of heat transfer ...
Keywords: Heat Transfer, Hot Disk, Micro oscillating heat pipe, Self-rewetting fluid, Thermal Conductivity, Transient plane source (TPS) method
Read MoreAuthor(s): Bengt Sunden, Dan Huang, Zan Wu
Method: Hot Disk TPS
In this study, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were added to Al2O3/water nanofluids to determine their heat transfer and temperature drop properties compared to water and Al2O3/water ...
Keywords: Heat Transfer, Hot Disk, Hybrid nanofluid mixture, multi-walled carbon nanotube, Plate Heat Exchanger, Pressure drop, Thermal Conductivity, Transient plane source (TPS)
Read MoreAuthor(s): Numan Yüksel
Method: Hot Disk TPS
This article reviewed the methods that are available to test thermal properties of various insulating materials. These methods can fall under one of two categories: steady state techniques and non-steady (...
Keywords: Heat Transfer, Hot Disk, Insulation material, Mathematical model, Measurement method, Tests, Thermal Conductivity, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method
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