A review of crystallization fouling in heat exchangers

J Berce, M Zupančič, M Može, I Golobič - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
A vast majority of heat exchangers suffer from unwanted deposition of material on the
surface, which severely inhibits their performance and thus marks one of the biggest …

Heat transfer innovations and their application in thermal desalination processes

T Liu, MS Mauter - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The familiarity of mature thermal technologies for brine concentration and crystallization is
likely to sustain their widespread deployment despite their high capital and operational (ie …

Scale formation and subcooled flow boiling heat transfer of CuO–water nanofluid inside the vertical annulus

MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2014 - Elsevier
The forced convective and subcooled flow-boiling heat transfer of CuO/water nanofluid as
well as fouling rate of nanofluid are experimentally quantified for different dilute …

Particulate fouling of CuO–water nanofluid at isothermal diffusive condition inside the conventional heat exchanger-experimental and modeling

V Nikkhah, MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2015 - Elsevier
Because of potential of energy saving and wide utilizations of nanofluids in industrial and
commercial aspects, sedimentation and scale formation of nanoparticles inside the heat …

Thermal analysis of a binary base fluid in pool boiling system of glycol–water alumina nano-suspension

MR Safaei, I Tlili, E Gholamalizadeh, T Abbas… - Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Springer
The main aim of the present research is to measure the nucleate boiling heat transfer
coefficient (BHTC) of aqueous glycol nano-suspension as a coolant around a horizontal …

Pool boiling heat transfer to dilute copper oxide aqueous nanofluids

MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
A set of experiments have been performed to quantify the pool boiling heat transfer
coefficient of dilute copper oxide water-based nanofluids at mass concentrations of 0.1 …

Comparatively experimental study on the boiling thermal performance of metal oxide and multi-walled carbon nanotube nanofluids

MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi - Powder Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
This work aims to focus on the flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of metal oxide and
multi-walled carbon nanotube nanofluids inside an annulus heat exchanger. The flow …

Pool boiling heat transfer to aqueous alumina nano-fluids on the plain and concentric circular micro-structured (CCM) surfaces

MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi… - Experimental Thermal and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The present work mainly focuses on the pool boiling heat transfer of aqueous alumina nano-
fluids up to critical heat flux point on a circular surface at two mass concentrations of 0.1 …

A review of recent advancements in the crystallization fouling of heat exchangers

K Shaikh, KMS Newaz, MNM Zubir, KH Wong… - Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Springer
A wide range of industrial processes (ie, evaporation and condensation in desalination
process, steam power plant, solar plant, etc.) involve heat transfer among the fluids. During …

Convective boiling and particulate fouling of stabilized CuO-ethylene glycol nanofluids inside the annular heat exchanger

MM Sarafraz, F Hormozi - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermal performance of convective flow boiling heat transfer and particulate fouling of
CuO/EG nanofluids has been experimentally studied inside the annular heat exchanger …