Project description
Nanostructured materials meet evolving heat-management needs
Machines generate a lot of heat for diverse reasons, including friction between moving parts, resistance to electron flow, and combustion. Combustion engines are the workhorses in cars and industrial equipment; effective thermal management plays a critical role in their efficiency, energy consumption and lifetime. Fluids are commonly used for lubrication and cooling, but as motors increasingly become more powerful and smaller, better thermal management is needed. The EU-funded NanoCooling project is harnessing the thermodynamic power of nanostructured carbon in the form of graphene in its novel cooling fluid. Its benefits will be reaped by manufacturers, consumers and the environment, since the nanofluid should enhance energy efficiency in applications across the board: automotive and industrial combustion engines, radiators and heat exchangers.
Objective
Heat removal and management is a major concern for any technology that deals with high power and small size. Growing energy demands, precision manufacturing, miniaturization, nuclear regulations and critical economies demand high-efficient coolants and lubricants.
Graphene is a major contender to produce high-performance nanofluids given its excellent thermal properties. Thus, IQR has developed stable graphene nanofluids with enhanced thermal properties, suitable for their application in automotive and industry engines.
NanoCooling project is an innovative graphene-based nanofluid to improve the heat exchange capacity in cooling systems for combustion engines. NanoCooling will take advantage of nanofluids based on graphene particles, to re-design and improve existing cooling systems, aiming to develop more efficient and smaller motors. Moreover, these new nanofluids will have great potential for other applications; e.g. heat exchangers and radiators.
The better thermodynamic properties of graphene are transferred to the innovative NanoCooling nanofluid, which will lead to a reduction of power consumption. The use of NanoCooling will allow the creation of new designs for heat exchangers, with more efficient cooling properties.
For the automotive industry, a more efficient thermally conductive nanofluid will enable a reduction of the size and weight of the cooling system; leading the way to enhanced performance, increased fuel economy and higher dynamic response.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringtribologylubrication
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialstwo-dimensional nanostructuresgraphene
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
26510 PRADEJON
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.