PROJECT TITLE

18MHPXXXL - MAJOR PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

XXXXXXXXX (RA191101801XXXXXX)
XXXXXXXXXXX (RA191101801XXXXX)
XXXXXXXXXXX (RA191101801XXXX)
(Batch No.: XXX)

Under the guidance of

Dr. XXXXX, M.E., Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor, Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

In Partial fulfilment for the degree

of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

in

MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING (Mention specialization if any)

of

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

S.R.M. Nagar, Kattankulathur, Kancheepuram District

May 2023
 SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(Under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report titled “Title of the project” is the bonafide work of
“NAME XXXXXX (RA191101801XXXXXX), XXXXXXX
(RA191101801XXXXX), and XXXXX (R A 191101801XXXX), who carried out the
project work under my supervision. Certified further, that to the best of my knowledge the
work reported here in does not form any other project report or dissertation on the basis
of which a degree or award was conferred on an earlier occasion on this or any other
candidate.

SIGNATURE
SIGNATURE

Dr. G. MURALI, M.E., Ph.D.

Dr. XXXX, M.E., Ph.D. PROFESSOR & HEAD OF THE
GUIDE DEPARTMENT
Assistant Professor Dept. of Mechatronics Engineering
Dept. of Mechatronics Engineering

Signature of the External Examiner

Signature of the Internal Examiner
 ABSTRACT

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It has been a great honor and privilege to undergo B.Tech in MECHATRONICS at

SRM Institute of Science and Technology. We are very much thankful to the
Department of Mechatronics, SRM Institute of Science and Technology for
providing all facilities and support to meet our project requirements.

We would like to thank our Head of Department Dr. G. MURALI, M.E., Ph.D.
and our project guide Dr. XXXXXXXX, M.E., Ph.D. who gave us a big helping hand
during the entire project.

The success and final outcome of this project required a lot of guidance and
assistance from many people and we are extremely fortunate that we have got this all
along the completion of our project work. Whatever we have done is only due to such
guidance and assistance and we would like to thank them for their kind support.

Name of the student 1

Name of the student 2
Name of the student 3
(UPPER CASE)

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT iii
LIST OF TABLES xiii
LIST OF FIGURES xvi
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xxii

1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION 1
1.2 SOLAR COLLECTOR AND TYPES 1
1.3 REQUIREMENTS OF ENGINE COOLING
SYSTEM 3
1.4 CHALLENGES IN ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM 3
1.5 NANOFLUIDS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 5
1.5.1 Role of Nanofluids in Engine
Cooling System 6
1.6 HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN
NANOFLUIDS 6
1.6.1 Brownian Motion 7
1.6.2 Ballistic Conduction in Suspended Particles 8
1.6.3 Liquid Layering of the Base Fluids
Surrounding Nanoparticle 8
1.6.4 Nanoparticle Clustering 9
1.7 NEED OF THE RESEARCH 9
1.8 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 10
1.9 ORGANIZATION OF THESIS 11

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2 LITERATURE REVIEW 13
2.1 REVIEW OF THERMAL PROPERTIES
OF CuO/WATER AND Al2O3/WATER
NANOFLUIDS 13
2.1.1 Review of Thermal Conductivity of
CuO based Nanofluids 14
2.1.2 Review of Thermal Conductivity of
Al2O3 based Nanofluids 16

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 ABBREVIATIONS

HSM Hot Stamping Machine

FRL Filter Regulator Lubricator
NO Normally Open
NC Normally Closed
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
ICSP In Circuit Serial Programming
DCV Direction Control Valve
DAV Diverted Air Valve
DOF Degrees Of Freedom
CF Correction Factor

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 LIST OF SYMBOLS
F Number of independent variables
P Level
Q Number of interactions.
n Number of experimental replication
Yij Response of ith trial of jth dependent level
σ Standard deviation
SST Sum of Square value
SSG Total variation between treatment
SSE Variation due to error
a Number of factors
Ti i-th treatment total
K Number of groups