A comprehensive review of thermophysical properties and prospects of ionanocolloids in thermal energy applications

Elaine Fabre and S.M. Sohel Murshed

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021, vol. 151, issue C

Abstract: The increasing research efforts for more efficient fluids for thermal energy applications have driven to the upsurge of many investigations in fluids with improved thermophysical properties. In this sense, the ionic liquid-based nanofluids termed here as “Ionanocolloids” have gained considerable attention, because they combine the remarkable physicochemical features of the ionic liquids with the significant high thermal conductivity of nanoparticles to produce an excellent alternative to replace the conventional fluids. Moreover, due to their negligible vapour pressure, these fluids are more eco-friendly and represent a sustainable alternative media in thermal management and energy fields. Despite recent increase in research and publications on this new type of fluids, except this study, there is no work featuring an extensive state of the art and prospect of the ionic liquids and their ionanocolloids particularly for their thermophysical properties and energy applications available in the literature. Moreover, besides a systematic comparison of the available data, this work provides insights into the behaviour and thermal features of the ionanocolloids with different experimental conditions and makes a critical analysis about their challenges and prospects.

Keywords: Ionic liquids; Nanoparticles; Ionanocolloids; Thermophysical properties; Thermal energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111593

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