ABSTRACT
Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in fluids that show significant enhancement of their properties at modest nanoparticle concentrations. Most of the publications on nanofluids are about understanding their behavior so that they can be utilized where straight heat transfer enhancement is paramount as in many industrial applications, nuclear reactors, transportation, electronics as well as biomedicine and food. This chapter focuses on presenting the broad range of current and future applications that involve nanofluids, emphasizing their improved heat transfer properties that are controllable and the specific characteristics that these nanofluids possess, which make them suitable for such applications. It discusses studies on industrial cooling applications to understand all the heat transfer mechanisms in nanofluids. Thecombustion of diesel fuel mixed with aqueous aluminum nanofluid increased the total combustion heat while decreasing the concentration of smoke and nitrous oxide in the exhaust emission from the diesel engine.
