SSM COLLEGE

OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

PARIHASPORA, PATTAN BARAMULLA

SEMINAR REPORT
ON
APPLICATION OF NANO FLUIDS IN ENHANCING
HEAT TRANSFER

SUBMITTED TO:
Er. Hakeem Sajad

Department of Mechanical Engineering

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the seminar report entitled

APPLICATION OF NANO FLUIDS IN ENHANCING
HEAT TRANSFER
SUBMITTED BY
Arif Abass
Enroll No. 2557

For partial fulfillment of the award of degree of B.E. in
Mechanical Engineering during the period of study in 7
th

semester and the work under question has not been
submitted earlier for the same degree.

Seminar Co-ordinator
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I t gives me an immense pleasure to submit this technical paper
entitled APPLICATION OF NANO FLUIDS IN ENHANCING HEAT TRANSFER. I
have tried my level best to represent this topic into compact and to
the point framework.

Firstly I thank Almighty for guiding me at every step, every
time.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks with profound
gratitude to Head Of Mechanical Department for his valuable
guidance and constant encouragement. I wish to express my
sincere thanks to my coordinator and all the staff members for
inspiring me the best of their knowledge and guidance.

Last but not the least; I thank my family and friends for their
assistance and help.






CONTENTS

CHAPTERS PAGE NO.
1 Introduction 01
2 Nano fluids 03
3 Thermal Conductivity 08
4 Mechanism Of Heat transfer Improvement 14
5 Discussion on Nano Fluid Heat Transfer Technology And Their Application 17
6 Conclusion 22
7 Suggestions for Future 23
8 References 24








LIST OF FIGURES

Fig.No. FIGURE PAGE NO.
01 Thermal conductivity of typical material 04
02 Transmission electron micrographs 05
03 Why nano particles are better than micro particles 07
04 Graph between volume fraction and thermal conductivity ratio 09
05 Graph between thermal conductivity ratio and temperature 12
06 Clustering of nano particles 16
07 Computation of experimental data for Cuo water nano fluid 17


ABSTRACT



Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in fluids that show significant enhancement of their
properties at modest nanoparticle concentrations. Many of the publications on nanofluids are about
understanding their behaviour so that they can be utilized where straight heat transfer enhancement is
paramount as in many industrial applications, nuclear reactors, transportation, electronics as well as
biomedicine and food. This seminar focuses on explaining the basic mechanisms of improvement in heat
transfer by addition nano particles.