Aim of this work is the design of a programmable electronic system for monitoring the environmental parameters and managing the electrical functions of a thermo-solar plant. The designed control unit detects data from temperature and light sensors, processes acquired information and commands external equipments (pumps, electric valves and power supplies) in order to optimize plant performances ...

This paper addresses entropy generation in the flow of an electrically-conducting couple stress nanofluid through a vertical porous channel subjected to constant heat flux. By using the Buongiorno model, equations for momentum, energy, and nanofluid concentration are modelled, solved using homotopy analysis and furthermore, solved numerically. The variations of significant fluid parameters with...

It is well known that magnetic nanofluids are widely applied in various fields ranging from heat transfer to miniature cooling, and damping sealing, due the mobility magnetism under field. Herein, PFPE-oil based with superior magnetization dispersion stability were obtained via regulating reaction temperature. The structures of particles characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) transmission ele...

The effect of heat source/sink on steady two-dimensional laminar MHD mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical permeable surface embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid is performed in this study. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained using the shooting method. Three types of metallic or nonmetallic nanoparticles, namely Copper (Cu), Alumina (Al2O3...

Single and multi-phase numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the heat transfer and entropy generation behaviour of transitional flow of TiO2 H2O nanofluid in a circular pipe. Results reveal that the small diameter of nanoparticles has the highest heat transfer rate for χ = 6% and the TiO2-water nanofluid shows higher heat transfer rate using multi-phase model compared to that of ...

abstract in this work, fe3o4-graphene oxide nanocomposite (go-fe3o4) was prepared as effective absorbent for magnetic solid phase extraction (mspe) of trace quantities of cadmium ions in environmental water and rice samples using 1, 2-dihydroxy anthraquinone-3-sulphonic acid, sodium salt (alizarin red s) and flame atomic absorption spectrometry (faas). the   go-fe3o4 was characterized by scanni...

Sometimes the need for non-circular ducts arises in many heat transfer applications because of lower pressure drop of non-circular cross section such as square duct compared to circular tube, particularly in compact heat. But square cross section has poor heat transfer performance and it is expected that using a nanofluid as a new heat transfer media may improve the heat transfer performance of...

Nanofluid is a new class of heat transfer fluids engineered by dispersing metallic or non-metallic nanoparticles with a typical size of less than 100 nm in the conventional heat transfer fluids.This article aims to investigate the overall and convection heat transfer coefficient and Nusselt number of Al2O3-water nanofluid flowing in a horizontal double pipe heat exchanger under turbulent flow (...

In this study, a simple and fast magnetic dispersive solid phase extraction methodology was developed G@Fe3O4/Fe/Ag nanoparticles for preconcentration and determine of phenolic compounds in water samples. The sorbent was characterized by assorted characterization method. The effects of diverse factor on the extraction process were studied thoroughly via design of experiment and desirability fun...