Specific heat capacity enhancement in nanofluids

在太阳能发电厂中，熔盐被用作导热流体和短期热能储存。大量实验表明，添加少量的某些纳米颗粒可显着提高基盐的比热容。这种影响在技术上很有趣，在经济上也很重要，但目前还不清楚。我们的目标是从分子水平上对上述纳米流体的比热容进行理论研究，利用分子模拟和模拟，从而为太阳能发电厂的换热和储热流体的优化提供贡献。

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.