Nanofluids for Enhanced Economics and Safety of Nuclear Reactors: An Evaluation of the Potential Features, Issues, and Research Gaps

• DOI: 10.13182/nt08-a3934
• Publication Date: 2017-08-11T12:17:06Z
• Authors: Jacopo Buongiorno; Lin-Wen Hu; Sung Joong Kim; Ryan Hannink; Bao Truong; Eric Forrest
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy

Nanofluids are engineered colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles in water and exhibit a very significant enhancement (up to 200%) of the boiling critical heat flux (CHF) at modest nanoparticle conc...