NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIALLY SQUARE SECTION ROUGHENED SOLAR AIR HEATER DESIGN

Investigating The Parameters For The Performance Enhancement Of A Solar Air Heater Having Different Artificially Roughened Geometries

The use of an artificial roughness on a surface of absorber plate is an effective technique to enhance the rate of heat transfer to fluid flow in the duct of a solar air heater. This paper presents a comparison of parameters that enhance the heat transfer coefficient thus efficiency ofa solar air heater for different artificially roughened geometries for the Reynolds number from 2500 -18000. Th...

A CFD based thermo-hydraulic performance analysis of an artificially roughened solar air heater having equilateral triangular sectioned rib roughness on the absorber plate

In this article, a numerical investigation is conducted to analyze the two-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flows through the artificially roughened solar air heater for relevant Reynolds number ranges from 3800 to 18,000. Twelve different configurations of equilateral triangular sectioned rib (P/e = 7.14–35.71 and e/d = 0.021–0.042) have been used as roughness element. The governing eq...

Performance characteristics of a transpired solar air heater

Thermal Performance of a Double-pass Solar Air Heater

This study analyzes the thermal performance of solar thermal energy using double-pass absorber plate in Sanandaj, Iran. To this end, a mathematical model was encoded according to the energy and exergy balance equations and solved by MATLAB software. Given the environmental conditions and radiation intensity of a winter day in Sanandaj, the effects of external parameters such as radiation intens...

Design and Thermodynamic analysis of solar air humidifier

In this paper, the cooling system of the air humidifire, completely powered by solar energy, has been designed and optimized. In the cooling system, instead of conventional compression cooling systems, the ammonia absorption refrigeration system has been used.Its design is done in a way that the performanceof the system has increased remarkably in environments with high temperature. The ammonia...