EPJ ST Special Issue: Nanofluids in Solar Energy Applications

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Published on 30 May 2024

Guest Editors: Sivaraj R, Santo Banerjee

All the engineering and technological processes utilize energy from different sources, and energy utilization harms nature in several aspects. Most of the energy demands across the globe are fulfilled by fossil fuels such as petroleum, natural gas, coal, and Orimulsion. The availability of fossil fuels is continuously decreasing, and the consumption of fossil fuels is very harmful to the environment. The major intention of the current century is to utilize energy sources that are concerned with climate change and environmental sustainability. Several researchers and industry communities focus on effectively using renewable energies such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and ocean energies to fulfill the needs of the present without affecting the future. Solar collectors absorb the sunlight and transmit it to a receiver, which converts the solar energy into heat energy. Fluids are utilized to absorb and transfer the heat through solar collector pipes. The working fluid plays a vital role in the heat extraction mechanisms in the solar system. The efficiency of solar collectors can be improved by adopting the nanofluids since the thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity of nanofluids can be effectively enhanced by optimally selecting the nanoparticles and the base fluid. Further, the nanofluids express high absorption in the solar spectrum range and explore low emittance in the infrared spectrum range. However, utilizing the solar energy has many environmental limitations and economic complications. So, it is mandatory to impose certain changes in several technical processes along with technological upgrades to enhance the efficiency of solar collectors.

The problem of application of AI methods in modern natural science can be conditionally divided into theoretical aspects of the development of machine learning and the theory of complex networks, as well as their combination, and into applications of AI in applied fields from space, climate, energy to biology and medicine.

This special issue invites cutting-edge research works and review articles which provide experimental/theoretical modeling and simulation on optimally selecting the working fluid (nanofluid) to enhance the efficiency in solar collectors, including (but not limited to):

• Design the storage medium with high heat capacity and thermal conductivity to improve the solar thermal energy storage
• Cooling the concentrated photovoltaic thermal system and photovoltaic-thermal hybrid solar collector using nanofluids
• Efficiency enhancement in flat-plate solar collectors by using nanofluids
• Experimental and theoretical modeling of solar energy systems
• Numerical simulation and heat transfer optimization on solar energy systems

Call for papers:
We invite the authors to submit their original research articles and review papers on "Nanofluids in Solar Energy Applications".

Articles should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ ST via the submission system, and should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “Nanofluids in Solar Energy Applications”.

Submissions should follow the guidelines of EPJ Special Topics, which can be found here. For the preparation of the manuscripts a special latex template (preferably single-column layout) is available here.

Guest Editors:

Sivaraj R, Department of Mathematics and Computing, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab-144027, India, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Santo Banerjee, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >

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