Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner

The effect of various type of nanofluids on thermoelectric cooling performance has been investigated numerically. This paper described the effect of nanofluids is used to assist the thermoelectric cooler for heat dissipation at the hot side to improve cooling performance the thermoelectric module. A...

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Main Author: Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir
Format: Final Year Project
Language: English
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: IRC 2020
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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spelling utp-utpedia.203182021-04-05T15:52:02Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/20318/ Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The effect of various type of nanofluids on thermoelectric cooling performance has been investigated numerically. This paper described the effect of nanofluids is used to assist the thermoelectric cooler for heat dissipation at the hot side to improve cooling performance the thermoelectric module. ANSYS Fluent is used to model and simulate the flow of nanofluids in minichannel Heat sink attached to the thermoelectric module hot side. The model described is validated with prior experimental study. The selected nanofluids are TiO2/water, Si02/water, TiO2/EG and Si02/EG, the volume concentration of nanoparticles for each nanofluids varies from 0.01%, 0.02% and 0.04%. The results of present work show that TiO2/water with 0.04% volume concentration as a coolant lead to highest COP of thermoelectric air conditioner. Numerical findings show that increase in volume concentration, improves thermal conductivity and thermal effectiveness between coolant and heatsink. IRC 2020-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/20318/1/8.pdf Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir (2020) Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner. IRC, UTP. (Submitted)
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir
Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
description The effect of various type of nanofluids on thermoelectric cooling performance has been investigated numerically. This paper described the effect of nanofluids is used to assist the thermoelectric cooler for heat dissipation at the hot side to improve cooling performance the thermoelectric module. ANSYS Fluent is used to model and simulate the flow of nanofluids in minichannel Heat sink attached to the thermoelectric module hot side. The model described is validated with prior experimental study. The selected nanofluids are TiO2/water, Si02/water, TiO2/EG and Si02/EG, the volume concentration of nanoparticles for each nanofluids varies from 0.01%, 0.02% and 0.04%. The results of present work show that TiO2/water with 0.04% volume concentration as a coolant lead to highest COP of thermoelectric air conditioner. Numerical findings show that increase in volume concentration, improves thermal conductivity and thermal effectiveness between coolant and heatsink.
format Final Year Project
author Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir
author_sort Saifuddin, Ahmad Syahir
title Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
title_short Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
title_full Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
title_fullStr Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
title_full_unstemmed Numerical Study Of Nanofluids Assisted Thermoelectric Air Conditioner
title_sort numerical study of nanofluids assisted thermoelectric air conditioner
publisher IRC
publishDate 2020
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/20318/1/8.pdf
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