The recycle effect on the collector efficiency improvement of double-pass sheet-and-tube solar water heaters with external recycle

Renewable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 953-970

  Ho, C D ^a   Chen, T C ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; RECYCLING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; SINGLE-PASS DEVICE; TUBE PAIRS;

SOLAR WATER HEATERS;

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; RECYCLING; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SOLAR POWER;

EID: 30944454657     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

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