Performance of solar water heaters with narrow mantle heat exchangers

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-362

  Soo Too, Y C ^a   Morrison, G L ^a   Behnia, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mantle heat exchanger; Solar water heater; TRNSYS

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; OFFSHORE PIPELINES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER; WATER HEATERS;

ANNUAL ENERGY SAVINGS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT WATERS; FREEZE PROTECTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATIONS; MANTLE HEAT EXCHANGER; SOLAR WATER HEATER; TANK SYSTEMS; TRNSYS; VERTICAL MANTLE HEAT EXCHANGERS;

SOLAR WATER HEATERS;

HEAT TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER; WATER DEMAND;

EID: 59649089084     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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