Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC

A Proton Electrolyte Membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is considered to be a viable alternative to Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) in automotive applications due to the key advantages in thermal management system. The main duty of thermal management system is to maintain the desirable temperature, with...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Syafiq, Idris, Irnie Azlin, Zakaria, Wan Azmi, Wan Hamzah
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Language:English
Published: Akademi Baru 2021
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34488/1/Heat%20transfer%20and%20pressure%20drop%20of%20water_FULL.pdf
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Irnie Azlin, Zakaria
Wan Azmi, Wan Hamzah
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Irnie Azlin, Zakaria
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description A Proton Electrolyte Membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is considered to be a viable alternative to Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) in automotive applications due to the key advantages in thermal management system. The main duty of thermal management system is to maintain the desirable temperature, with a uniform temperature distribution across the stack and its individual membranes. In this paper, the thermal enhancement for two types of PEMFC cooling plates were analysed and presented. The hybrid Al?O?:SiO? was used as coolant in distributor cooling plate. The study focuses on water based 0.5% volume concentration of single Al?O? , single SiO? nanofluids, hybrid Al?O?:SiO nanofluids with mixture ratio of 10:90 and 50:50. The effect of different ratios of nanofluids to heat transfer enhancement and fluid flow in Reynold number range of 400 to 2000 was observed. A 3D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) was developed based on distributor cooling plates using Ansys 16.0. Positive heat transfer enhancement was obtained where the 10:90 Al?O?:SiO? nanofluids has the highest heat transfer coefficient as compared to other nanofluids used. However, all nanofluids experienced higher pressure drop. Therefore, the advantage ratio was used to analyze the effect of both heat transfer enhancements and pressure drop demerits for nanofluids adoption. The results concluded that 10:90 Al?O?:SiO? hybrid nanofluid is the most feasible candidate followed by 50:50 Al?O?:SiO? Al?O? hybrid nanofluids up to fluid flow of Re1000. The positive results implied that hybrid Al?O?:SiO? nanofluids do improve the single nanofluids behaviour and has a better potential for future applications in PEMFC thermal management.
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spelling UMPir344882022-11-11T04:10:43Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34488/ Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC Muhammad Syafiq, Idris Irnie Azlin, Zakaria Wan Azmi, Wan Hamzah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery A Proton Electrolyte Membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) is considered to be a viable alternative to Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) in automotive applications due to the key advantages in thermal management system. The main duty of thermal management system is to maintain the desirable temperature, with a uniform temperature distribution across the stack and its individual membranes. In this paper, the thermal enhancement for two types of PEMFC cooling plates were analysed and presented. The hybrid Al?O?:SiO? was used as coolant in distributor cooling plate. The study focuses on water based 0.5% volume concentration of single Al?O? , single SiO? nanofluids, hybrid Al?O?:SiO nanofluids with mixture ratio of 10:90 and 50:50. The effect of different ratios of nanofluids to heat transfer enhancement and fluid flow in Reynold number range of 400 to 2000 was observed. A 3D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) was developed based on distributor cooling plates using Ansys 16.0. Positive heat transfer enhancement was obtained where the 10:90 Al?O?:SiO? nanofluids has the highest heat transfer coefficient as compared to other nanofluids used. However, all nanofluids experienced higher pressure drop. Therefore, the advantage ratio was used to analyze the effect of both heat transfer enhancements and pressure drop demerits for nanofluids adoption. The results concluded that 10:90 Al?O?:SiO? hybrid nanofluid is the most feasible candidate followed by 50:50 Al?O?:SiO? Al?O? hybrid nanofluids up to fluid flow of Re1000. The positive results implied that hybrid Al?O?:SiO? nanofluids do improve the single nanofluids behaviour and has a better potential for future applications in PEMFC thermal management. Akademi Baru 2021 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_nc_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34488/1/Heat%20transfer%20and%20pressure%20drop%20of%20water_FULL.pdf Muhammad Syafiq, Idris and Irnie Azlin, Zakaria and Wan Azmi, Wan Hamzah (2021) Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC. Journal of Advanced Research in Numerical Heat Transfer, 4 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2289-7879. (Published) https://www.akademiabaru.com/submit/index.php/arnht/article/view/1474
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Muhammad Syafiq, Idris
Irnie Azlin, Zakaria
Wan Azmi, Wan Hamzah
Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title_full Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title_fullStr Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title_full_unstemmed Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title_short Heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid Al2O3:SiO2 nanofluids in cooling plate of PEMFC
title_sort heat transfer and pressure drop of water based hybrid al2o3 sio2 nanofluids in cooling plate of pemfc
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34488/1/Heat%20transfer%20and%20pressure%20drop%20of%20water_FULL.pdf
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