Thermal and thermohydraulic performance of counter and parallel flow packed bed solar air heaters

Renewable Energy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 259-268

  Dhiman, Prashant ^a   Thakur, N S ^a   Chauhan, S R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Heater; Packed bed; Porosity; Thermal efficiency; Thermohydraulic efficiency; Wire mesh matrix

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; AIR HEATER; AIR MASS FLOW RATE; BED POROSITY; COUNTER-FLOWS; HEATER; MASS FLOW RATE OF AIR; MASS RATE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PEAK VALUES; SOLAR AIR HEATER; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMO-HYDRAULIC; THERMOHYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIRE MESHES;

EFFICIENCY; FLOW RATE; PACKED BEDS; POROSITY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR HEATING;

PARALLEL FLOW;

AIR MASS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POROSITY; PREDICTION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84860886216     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.03.032     Document Type: Article

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