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Final Year Project 2020/2021

An Experimental Study on the

Performance of Automotive Radiator

by Using Nano-Particle

Student’s Name: Muhammad Hassan Zuhdi Bin Ramli
Supervisor’s Name: Ahmad Kamal Ismail

Supervisor’s Email: ahmadkamal@unikl.edu.my

Abstract The automotive radiator is a heat exchanger that removes heat from engine coolant
passing through it. Heat is transferred to the outside air from the hot coolant. The educational
test rig is designed to evaluate the performance of an automotive radiator. This paper focused
on introducing high thermal conductivity nanoparticles into the car radiator coolant, the
efficient coolant thermal conductivity can be increased, improving the efficiency of the cooling
device. Therefore, the use of nanofluids for improving heat transfer performance has soared
over the past few years. The problem is poor heat transfer properties of conventional coolants
due to thermal conductivities and less finding of CFD Analysis. For experiment set-up, a one-
step method is used to preparing nanofluids. AL2O3 will be dispersed directly into the base
fluid. Calculation and analysis of engine cooling parameters such as mass flow rate, inlet, and
outlet temperature, surrounding and radiator temperature, and overall heat transfer coefficient.
In general, the radiator performance increased by mixing the distilled water with nano particles.

Keywords Radiator, Radiator Performance, Coolant, Nanofluid, AL2O3, Heat Transfer

Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Hons) in Mechanical (Automotive) 41
Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Hons) in Mechatronics (Automotive)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Hons) in Mechanical Design