Technical note Comparative study on the thermalperformances of solar air heater collectors with selectiveand nonselective absorber-plate

Renewable Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-112

  Hachemi, A ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Aérodynamique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; BLACK COATINGS; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT RADIATION; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW;

SOLAR AIR HEATERS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 0039181624     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00021-4     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Hollands KGT, Shewan EC, Optimization of flow passage geometry for air heating: Plate-type solarcollectors. Trans of ASME, Journal of Solar Energy and Engineering, 1981;103:323-330.
2. Choudhury C, Garg HP, Design analysis of corrugated and flat plate solar air heaters. RenewableEnergy, 1991;1(5/6):595-607.
3. Gupta D, Solanki SC, Saini JS, Heat and fluid flow in rectangular solar air heater ducts havingtransverse rib roughness on absorber plates. Solar Energy, 1993;51(1):31-37.
4. Cur N, Sparrow EM, Measurements of developing and fully developed heat transfer coefficientsalong a periodically interrupted surface. Journal of Heat Transfer, Trans of ASME,1979;101:211-216.
5. Yeh HM, Ting YC, Efficiency of solar air heaters packed with iron filings. Energy,1988;13(7):543-547.
6. Chiou JP, El-Wakil MM, Duffie JA, A slit-and expanded aluminium-foil matrix solar collector,Solar Energy, 1995;9(2):73-80.
7. Hamid YH, Beckman WA, Performance of air-cooled radiatively heated screen matrices. Journalof Engineering for Power, Trans of the ASME, 1971. pp. 221-224.
8. Beckman WA, Radiation and convection heat transfer in a porous bed. Trans. ASME Journal ofEngineering for Power, 1968. pp. 51-54.
9. Sharma SP, Saini JS, Varma HK, Thermal performance of packed-bed solar air heaters. SolarEnergy, 1991;47:59-67.
10. Swartman RK, Ogunade O, An investigation of packed bed collectors. Solar Energy,1966;10:106-110.
11. Collier RK, The characterization of crushed glass as a transpired air heating solar collector material.Proc. of Int. Solar Energy Society, Atlanta, GA, 1979. pp. 264-268.
12. Hastani M, Itaya Y, Adachi K, Heat transfer and thermal storage characteristics of opticallysemi-transparent material packed-bed solar air heaters. Current Research in HMT. I. I. T. MadrasIndia, 1985. pp. 61-70.
13. Mirsha CB, Sharma SP, Performance study of air-heater packed-bed solar energy collector.International Journal of Energy, 1981;6:153-157.
14. London AL, Offset rectangular plate-fins surface heat transfer and flow friction characteristics.Journal of Engineering for Power, 1968. 218-228.
15. Dubrovsky EV, Vasiliev VYA, Enhancement of convective heat transfer in rectangular ducts ofinterrupted surfaces. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 1988;31:807-818.
16. Wieting AR, Empirical correlations for heat transfer and flow friction characteristics of rectangularoffset-fin plate-fin heat exchangers. Journal of Heat Transfer Trans. of ASME, 1975. pp. 488-490.
17. Hachemi A, Optimization of thermal performance of solar air heater collector. Proceedings ofFlorence World Energy Research Symposium FLOWERS 94, Florence, Italy, 6-8 July, 1994.
18. Hachemi A, Thermal performance enhancement of solar air heaters, by fan-blown absorber platewith rectangular fins. International Journal of Energy Research, 1995;19(7):567-578.
19. Hachemi A, Enhancement of thermal performances in solar air heaters with the fanned channel backside of collectors. Proceedings of the National Energy Conference, Conferinta Nationala a Energei,CNE96 ROMANIA, Olimp, Neptun, 2-5 September, 1996.
20. Hachemi A, Improvement of thermal heat performance of solar air heater collectors. Submitted forpublishing in the Proceedings of Florence World Energy Research Symposium FLOWERS 97Florence, Italy, 30 July-1 August, 1997.
21. Beckman WA, Duffie JA, Solar engineering of thermal processes, 3rd ed. John Wiley, New York,1980.