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Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2023 Utilizing thermal storage integrated into a solar air heater SAH is a promising solution to enhance the thermal performance of solar air heaters. The present work experimentally investigated the thermal impact of an absorber-finned heat exchanger ...
Hussam S. Dheyab +4 more
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Enhancing Solar Air Heater Performance with Quatrefoil Artificial Roughness: An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy System Approach [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesSolar air Collector is used to transform the solar energy into heat energy. Solar heating technologies use only free, renewable and clean energy. More number of previous studies was done. The roughness element is changed to enhance the airflow’s capacity
Rajkumar P. +3 more
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023 This work investigates the performance enhancement of a solar air heater using inclined impinging jets on the heater surface. Two main sets of arrangements are considered for the jet nozzles including the parallel and crossing orientation of nozzles in ...
Tao Hai +6 more
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Analysis of the effects of use of thermal energy storage device (TESD) in solar air heater
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2018 In this research work a setup is designed to incorporate Lauric acid as a phase changing material (PCM) in a solar air heater. This phase changing material (PCM) is carefully selected based on the application and manufacturing constraints.
Amol Wadhawan, A.S. Dhoble, V.B. Gawande
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2023 In this study, roughened absorber plate and jet nozzle are simultaneously employed to enhance the efficiency of a solar based air heater. The impact of jet nozzle hole shape is comprehensively investigated for the mentioned system which have not been ...
Sameer Ali Alsibiani
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Effect of conical pin arrangement on heat transfer efficiency of a free convective solar air heater
Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, 2016 The artificial roughnesses on absorber plate have been known to enhance the performance of the solar air heater under forced convection. The objective of this paper is to study the effect of conical pin arrangement on the heat transfer enhancement of ...
S.E. Gilani +2 more
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Energy Reports, 2020 Solar air heater is used to heat air for space heating and drying process, but its low heat transfers between absorber plate and air account for its low thermal performance.
Rahul Khatri +5 more
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Innovative thermo-solar air heater [PDF]
Energy and Buildings, 2018 In the present work we elaborate the innovative design of the solar air heater and justify it by a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation, implementing and experimentally testing a sample. We propose to use this device for maintenance of constant ambient conditions for thermal comfort and low energy consumption for indoor environments, inside ...
Cuzminschi, M +4 more
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Experimental Study on Solar Air Heating
Al-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal, 2018 A new type of solar air heater was designed, fabricated, and tested in Baghdad, Iraq winter conditions. The heater consists of two main parts. The horizontal section was filled with the black colored iron chip while the vertical part has five pipes ...
Miqdam T Chaichan +2 more
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2019 The present experimental study is performed to investigate the thermal performances of double pass solar air heater comprising of phase change materials (PCM) contained in metallic finned tubes to have increased energy storage and heat transfer rate ...
Muhammad Sajawal +5 more
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