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Todd Otanicar
Researcher at Boise State University
Publications - 111
Citations - 5774
Todd Otanicar is an academic researcher from Boise State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solar energy & Photovoltaic system. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 102 publications receiving 4760 citations. Previous affiliations of Todd Otanicar include Arizona State University & Loyola Marymount University.
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Nanofluid-based direct absorption solar collector
TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental results on solar collectors based on nanofluids made from a variety of nanoparticles (carbon nanotubes, graphite, and silver) were reported.
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Small particles, big impacts: A review of the diverse applications of nanofluids
Robert A. Taylor,Sylvain Coulombe,Todd Otanicar,Patrick E. Phelan,Andrey Gunawan,Wei Lv,Gary Rosengarten,Ravi Prasher,Himanshu Tyagi +8 more
TL;DR: Nanofluids have seen enormous growth in popularity since they were proposed by Choi in 1995 as mentioned in this paper, and there were nearly 700 research articles where the term nanofluid was used in the title, showing rapid growth from 2006 (175) and 2001 (10).
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Nanofluid optical property characterization: towards efficient direct absorption solar collectors.
TL;DR: Comparisons with measured extinction coefficients reveal that the approximation works well with water-based nanofluids containing graphite nanoparticles but less well with metallic nanoparticles and/or oil-based fluids.
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Applicability of nanofluids in high flux solar collectors
Robert A. Taylor,Patrick E. Phelan,Todd Otanicar,Chad A. Walker,Monica Nguyen,Steven Trimble,Ravi Prasher +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a notional design of this type of nanofluid receiver is presented, and the authors show a theoretical improvement in efficiency of up to 10% as compared to surface-based collectors when solar concentration ratios are in the range of 100-1000.
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Optical properties of liquids for direct absorption solar thermal energy systems
TL;DR: A method for experimentally determining the extinction index of four liquids commonly used in solar thermal energy applications was developed in this paper, and the final value reported is the solar-weighted absorption coefficient for the fluids demonstrating each fluid's baseline capacity for absorbing solar energy.