Abstract
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Introduction
Experimental section
Convective heat transfer coefficient (h)
Results and discussion
Conclusions
Declaration of competing interest
Acknowledgements
Appendix A. Supplementary data
Data availability
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ABSTRACT
Enhancing the performance of heat transfer fluids (HTF) is a key target for improving the efficiency of many industrial processes. Employing nanofluids for this purpose, by dispersing nanoparticles into the initial HTF to improve its thermo-physical properties, is one possible way to increase its heat transfer capacity. However, testing these properties at high temperature is not always easy. An experimental setup consisting of a thermohydraulic loop for high-temperature heat transfer measurements was developed in this work. The accuracy and repeatability of the measurements taken in the heat transfer loop were ensured. A nanofluid consisting of a commercial thermal oil, doped with Sn nanoparticles at 1 wt% and olive oil surfactant used to enhance colloidal stability, was tested and compared to the results obtained for the base fluid and the base fluid/stabiliser mixture employing their experimentally measured thermo-physical properties. The nanofluid generally enhanced the convective heat transfer coefficient in relation to the base fluid with enhancements of up to 7.23% at 200 ◦C and 9.43% at 140 ◦C vs. the pure base fluid.