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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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Energy saving using solar air heater collectors [PDF]
In this study, the issue of providing heat energy to a small utility room from a solar air heater collector in the climate of Uzbekistan was considered.
Uzbekov Mirsoli +5 more
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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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Solar dryer with thermal storage and biomass-backup heater [PDF]
An indirect type natural convection solar dryer with integrated collector-storage solar and biomass backup heaters has been designed, constructed and evaluated.
Madhlopa, A., Ngwalo, G.
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Enhancing Solar Air Heater Performance with Quatrefoil Artificial Roughness: An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy System Approach [PDF]
Solar 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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A solar cooling plant: a benchmark for hybrid systems control [PDF]
This paper describes the hybrid model of a solar cooling plant. This modelconsiders all possible operating modes of the process, which are modelled as a nitestate machine whose transition conditions are given by the discrete variables.
Balluchi +6 more
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Predictive Control Applied to a Solar Desalination Plant Connected to a Greenhouse with Daily Variation of Irrigation Water Demand [PDF]
The water deficit in the Mediterranean area is a known matter severely affecting agriculture. One way to avoid the aquifers’ exploitation is to supply water to crops by using thermal desalination processes.
Berenguel Soria, Manuel +5 more
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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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Optimization of a solar air heater with phase change materials: Experimental and numerical study [PDF]
In this paper, a solar air heater (SAH) with phase change material (PCM)-based energy storage is investigated. Paraffin was placed underneath the absorber plate as the PCM.
Kianifar, A, Moradi, Ramin, Wongwises, S
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Analysis of the effects of use of thermal energy storage device (TESD) in solar air heater
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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