“INVESTIGATION ON PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF DOMESTIC REFRIGERATOR USING NANOREFRIGERANT/NANOLUBRICANT”- A REVIEW

Domestic Refrigerator is the essential equipment for people. Nearly there is no home without refrigerator. Thermal systems like refrigerators and air conditioners consume large amount of electric power. So avenues of developing energy efficient refrigeration and air conditioning systems with nature friendly refrigerants need to be explored. The rapid advances in nanotechnology have led to emerging of new generation heat transfer fluids called Nano fluids. Nano fluids are prepared by suspending nano sized particles (1-100nm) in conventional fluids and have higher thermal conductivity than the base fluids. The researchers continuously working on increasing cooling capacity and developing a cooling system that is energy efficient. The use of nanorefrigerant in small amount in vapor compression refrigeration system aided in improving system performance. This paper focuses on extensive literature review on thermal performance of the VCRs system used in a residential refrigerator using nanorefrigerant and nanolubricant.