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Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators
This paper presents a nanofluid-based cooling method for a brushless synchronous generator (BLSG) by using Al(2)O(3) lubricating oil. In order to demonstrate the superiority of the nanofluid-based cooling method, analysis of the thermal performance and efficiency of the nanofluid-based cooling syste...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040420 |
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author | Xiong, Kai Li, Yunhua Li, Yun-Ze Wang, Ji-Xiang Mao, Yufeng |
author_facet | Xiong, Kai Li, Yunhua Li, Yun-Ze Wang, Ji-Xiang Mao, Yufeng |
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description | This paper presents a nanofluid-based cooling method for a brushless synchronous generator (BLSG) by using Al(2)O(3) lubricating oil. In order to demonstrate the superiority of the nanofluid-based cooling method, analysis of the thermal performance and efficiency of the nanofluid-based cooling system (NBCS) for the BLSG is conducted along with the modeling and simulation cases arranged for NBCS. Compared with the results obtained under the base fluid cooling condition, results show that the nanofluid-based cooling method can reduce the steady-state temperature and power losses in BLSG and decrease the temperature settling time and changing ratio, which demonstrate that both steady-state and transient thermal performance of NBCS are improved as nanoparticle volume fraction (NVF) in nanofluid increases. Besides, although the input power of cycling pumps in NBCS has ~30% increase when the NVF is 10%, the efficiency of the NBCS has a slight increase because the 4.1% reduction in power loss of BLSG is bigger than the total incensement of input power of the cycling pumps. The results illustrate the superiority of the nanofluid-based cooling method, and it indicates that the proposed method has a broad application prospect in the field of thermal control of onboard synchronous generators with high power density. |
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spelling | pubmed-75149102020-11-09 Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators Xiong, Kai Li, Yunhua Li, Yun-Ze Wang, Ji-Xiang Mao, Yufeng Entropy (Basel) Article This paper presents a nanofluid-based cooling method for a brushless synchronous generator (BLSG) by using Al(2)O(3) lubricating oil. In order to demonstrate the superiority of the nanofluid-based cooling method, analysis of the thermal performance and efficiency of the nanofluid-based cooling system (NBCS) for the BLSG is conducted along with the modeling and simulation cases arranged for NBCS. Compared with the results obtained under the base fluid cooling condition, results show that the nanofluid-based cooling method can reduce the steady-state temperature and power losses in BLSG and decrease the temperature settling time and changing ratio, which demonstrate that both steady-state and transient thermal performance of NBCS are improved as nanoparticle volume fraction (NVF) in nanofluid increases. Besides, although the input power of cycling pumps in NBCS has ~30% increase when the NVF is 10%, the efficiency of the NBCS has a slight increase because the 4.1% reduction in power loss of BLSG is bigger than the total incensement of input power of the cycling pumps. The results illustrate the superiority of the nanofluid-based cooling method, and it indicates that the proposed method has a broad application prospect in the field of thermal control of onboard synchronous generators with high power density. MDPI 2019-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7514910/ /pubmed/33267134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040420 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Xiong, Kai Li, Yunhua Li, Yun-Ze Wang, Ji-Xiang Mao, Yufeng Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title | Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title_full | Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title_fullStr | Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title_full_unstemmed | Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title_short | Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Performance of Nanofluid-Based Cooling System for Synchronous Generators |
title_sort | numerical investigation on the thermal performance of nanofluid-based cooling system for synchronous generators |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21040420 |
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