Nanotechnology Integrated Automobile Radiator

Abstract

During the design and development of vehicle it was a greater challenge to prevent the engine & engine components from excess heat generated inside the engine cylinder. Thus, a cooling system is necessary to prevent failure of the engine from melting and damages. The cooling system of an automobile plays an important role in vehicle’s performance. Currently all automobile industries are using aluminium based Radiator. The Conventional radiator is partial heat dissipation and does not meet the requirement at high engine output. Due to limited space at the front of the engine, the radiator size is restricted and cannot be principally increased, so that, we can increase the heat transfer coefficient from the current radiator with nanotechnology integrated fin material i.e.Al-MWCNT.This study attempts to investigate, convective heat transfer coefficient of automobile radiator using different fin material. Use Nanotechnology integrated fin material instead of aluminium fins on the current radiator design, the average percentage increase of convective heat transfer is more than 10% that of the conventional radiator.