Specific heat capacity enhancement in nanofluids

熔盐用作传热流体，并用于太阳能发电厂中的短期热能储存。大量实验表明，通过添加少量的某些纳米颗粒，碱盐的比热容显著增强。 这种效应在技术上很有趣，在经济上也很重要，但目前还不清楚。我们的目标是在分子水平上对上述纳米流体的比热容进行理论研究，使用分子建模和模拟，从而为太阳能发电厂的传热和储热流体的优化做出贡献。

Molten salts are used as heat transfer fluids and for short term heat energy storage in solar power plants. A number of experiments show that the specific heat capacity of the base salt is significantly enhanced by adding small amounts of certain nano-particles. This effect, which is technically interesting and economically important, is not yet understood. Our aim is the theoretical investigation of the specific heat capacity in the aforementioned nano fluids on the molecular level, using molecular modeling and simulations, thereby providing a contribution to the optimization of heat transfer and heat storage fluids in solar power plants.