Performance of solar air heater ducts with different types of ribs on the absorber plate

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6651-6660

  Tanda, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Effective efficiency; Entropy generation; Roughened channel; Solar air heater

Indexed keywords

AIR PREHEATERS; DUCTS; ENTROPY; FRICTION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEATING EQUIPMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR HEATING;

ABSORBER PLATES; EFFECTIVE EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENTROPY GENERATION ANALYSIS; FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS; FRICTION FACTORS; IN-CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CRITERIA; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; RIB-ROUGHENED CHANNELS; ROUGHENED CHANNEL; SMOOTH CHANNEL; SOLAR AIR HEATER; UNIFORM FLUX;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ABSORPTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRICTION; HEAT BALANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 80655124482     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.08.043     Document Type: Article

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