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Nanofluids are novel engineering materials with many potential industrial applications, particularly in the processes of heat exchange. The paper presents the results of experimental investigation of viscosity, thermal and electrical conductivity of transparent suspensions of silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanoparticles in ethylene glycol (EG). Dynamic viscosity of samples was measured in shear rate range from 100 s-1 to 1000 s-1. Thermal and electrical conductivity of nanosuspensions with various fractions of particles was measured. All measurements were conducted at constant temperature 298.15 K. It was presented that with increasing concentrations of nanoparticles in nanofluids all investigated properties increase linearly in examined volume fraction range. Finally evaluation of the heat transfers performance, and thermo-electrical conductivity (TEC) ratio based on obtained results was presented.

Compounds

#	Formula	Name
1	C2H6O2	1,2-ethanediol

Datasets

The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type	Compound-#	Property	Variable	Phase	Method	#Points
POMD	1	Viscosity, Pa*s ; Liquid	Temperature, K; Liquid Pressure, kPa; Liquid	Liquid	Cone and plate viscometry	1
POMD	1	Thermal conductivity, W/m/K ; Liquid	Temperature, K; Liquid Pressure, kPa; Liquid	Liquid	THOTW	1
POMD	1	Electrical conductivity, S/m ; Liquid	Temperature, K; Liquid Pressure, kPa; Liquid	Liquid	Direct current cell with electrodes	1

Thermodynamics Research Center / ThermoML | Thermochimica Acta

Viscosity, thermal and electrical conductivity of silicon dioxide - ethylene glycol transparent nanofluids: An experimental studies

Zyla, G.[Gawel], Fal, J.[Jacek]

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