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Heat transfer enhancement by diamond nanofluid in gravity heat pipe for waste heat recovery

Ning Qian,Fan Jiang,Jiajia Chen,Yucan Fu,Jingzhou Zhang,Jiuhua Xu
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
DOI: 10.1080/26941112.2022.2163594
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Abstract

Waste heat recovery is significant for improving energy utilization, reducing carbon emissions, and neutrality. The gravity heat pipe (GHP) has excellent thermal performance due to the cyclic phase transformation of the working fluid. As an important thermal management device for waste heat recovery, the heat transport capacity of GHP improves, the efficiency and performance of the waste heat recovery increase, and more wasted heat can be stored more quickly. Nano-diamond has the highest thermal conductivity and can be dispersed in water to form a diamond nanofluid, enhancing the thermal performance of GHP. In contrast, the study on the heat transfer behavior of the diamond nanofluid in GHP is insufficient. Besides, the influences of filling ratio (FR), mass fraction (MF), and heat flux on thermal performance are in demand for further study. In this article, the heat transfer behavior is investigated by studying the flow patterns of diamond nanofluids. The influences of filling ratio and mass fraction on flow patterns are analyzed. An orthogonal experiment is conducted; the heat flux has the most significant effect on the thermal performance, followed by the filling ratio and mass fraction. The thermal performance is the best when the optimal parameters (FR = 20%, MF = 1 w.t.%) are selected under a heat flux of 20 × 104 W/m2. The equivalent heat transfer coefficient reaches 3485 W/(m2·°C). This article can achieve a deeper understanding of the diamond nanofluid heat transfer mechanism in GHP and enhance the thermal performance of GHP for better waste heat recovery.

Keywords

Nano-diamond; gravity heat pipe; heat transfer; mass fraction; filling ratio

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