In the past twenty years, the behavior of the apparent thermal conductance of two or three phase systems comprised of solid particles with nanometer dimensions suspended in fluids, dubbed nanofluids, has been greatly contested in literature. After the study of the seven simplest nanofluids, Cu, CuO, Al2O3, and TiO2 suspended in water and ethylene glycol, ...
As green energy becomes increasingly important, more companies are exploring the possibility of using molten salts as heat transfer fluids for concentrated solar power. One of the downfalls of molten salts is their low thermal conductivity, which can be altered with the addition of thermally conductive nanoparticles. The thermal conductivity analyzer was used in this experiment to measure the thermal conductivity of molten salts after the addition of MoS2 (molybdenum ...
