The purpose of this review summarizes the important published articles on the enhancement of the convection heat transfer in heat exchangers using nanofluids on two topics. The first section focuses on presenting the theoretical and experimental results for the effective thermal conductivity, viscosity and the Nusselt number reported by several authors. The second section concentrates on application of nanofluids in various types of heat exchangers: plate heat exchangers, shell and tube heat exchangers, compact heat exchangers and double pipe heat exchangers.

Application of nanofluids in heat exchangers: A review

An updated review on application of nanofluids in heat exchangers for saving energy

The heat transfer characteristics of current fluids are tremendously improved by suspending nano-sized solid particles with diameter below 100 nm and are considered as prospective working fluids for the applications such as solar collectors, heat pipes, nuclear reactors, electronic cooling systems, automobile radiators etc. The present paper summarizes the current research in the nanofluid studies on convective heat transfer performance, thermo-physical properties, effect of fluid temperature, inlet velocity, use of surfactant for better stability of nanofluids, particle size, and volume concentration effects. The article also suggests the direction for future developments.

Heat transfer characteristics in nanofluid—A review

Experimental investigation of convective heat transfer augmentation for car radiator using ZnO–water nanofluids

Experimental analysis of heat transfer and friction factor of nanofluid as a coolant in a corrugated plate heat exchanger

Experimental investigation of forced convective heat transfer coefficient in nanofluids of Al2O3/EG and CuO/EG in a double pipe and plate heat exchangers under turbulent flow

Ahmad Doosthoseini

Papers

Experimental investigation of forced convective heat transfer coefficient in nanofluids of Al2O3/EG and CuO/EG in a double pipe and plate heat exchangers under turbulent flow