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Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Flat Plate Solar Water Collector: a Review
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mankar, B. N. Shelke, Ramesh Walke, P. V. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Flat Plate Collector (FPC) is one of the important solar energy trapping device which uses air or water as working fluid. It is the easiest and least expensive to fabricate, install and maintain. Moreover, it is capable of using both the diffuse and the direct beam solar radiation. For residential and commercial use, flat plate collector can produce heat at sufficiently high temperatures to heat swimming pools, domestic hot water and buildings. Porous materials such as porous blocks with various shapes, porous covers and high porosity metal foams with different pore densities are used to enhance the heat transfer rate in a flat plate solar water collector. These materials are effective thermal enhancer due to its large surface area to volume and high thermal conductivity. The results show that heat transfer enhancement factor increases with increasing Reynolds number, pulsating amplitude, the effective conductivity ratio, smaller porosity and/or with decreasing porosity. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ijaegt.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/409493-pp-741-746-bhairavi.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
