A review of water heating system for solar energy applications

A Jamar, ZAA Majid, WH Azmi, M Norhafana… - … Communications in Heat …, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar energy is one of the widely used renewable energy that can be harnessed either by
directly deriving energy from sunlight or indirectly. Solar water heating system, on the other …

A review of techniques for increasing the productivity of passive solar stills

PK Chaurasiya, U Rajak, SK Singh, TN Verma… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficiency and distillate output of traditional passive solar till is poor. Various
investigators and researchers have modified the design components of passive solar still to …

A review on research trends in solar still designs for domestic and industrial applications

VP Katekar, SS Deshmukh - Journal of cleaner production, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional solar still owns poor efficiency and low distillate output. Many investigators
improved the performance of solar still by varying the design of its components. This paper …

Experimental studies and 3D simulations for the investigation of thermal performances of a solar air heater with different spiral-shaped baffles heights

WB Amara, A Bouabidi - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A new design of Solar Air Heater (SAH) with spiral flow path is studied experimentally and
numerically. The spiral-shaped SAH performance is studied at various mass flow rates, inlet …

Performance characteristics of a new curved double-pass counter flow solar air heater

A Kumar, AP Singh, OP Singh - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel design of counter flow curved double-pass solar air heater (DPSAH) is
proposed, and its performance characteristics are numerically investigated and compared …

Design and analysis of solar dryer for mid-latitude region

MN Musembi, KS Kiptoo, N Yuichi - Energy procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, an indirect natural convection updraft solar dryer was designed and fabricated
with objectives to; suit mid-latitude applications, determine its performance efficiency …

Performance enhancement of free convective solar air heater by pin protrusions on the absorber

SE Gilani, HH Al-Kayiem, DE Woldemicheal, SI Gilani - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper is aimed to present enhancing technique of the low performing free convective
solar air heaters. In order to increase the efficiency of this process, small sized turbulators …

A solar dryer for drying green chili in a forced convection for increasing the moisture removing rate

S Salve, AM Fulambarkar - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
The abundant and unpredictable use of fossil fuel accelerate the continuous search in that
field of an alternative source. Most of the researchers are attracted to the solar power, that is …

A performance and technoeconomic study of different geometrical designs of compact single-pass cross-matrix solar air collector with square-tube absorbers

AA Razak, ZAA Majid, F Basrawi, AF Sharol… - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This manuscript presents a performance study on a forced convection single-pass solar air
heater channel with compact cross-matrix absorber (CMA) incorporating metal hollow …

[PDF][PDF] Experimental and numerical analysis on the thermal performance of the aluminium absorber

ZC Linn, WWM Swe, SOE Aung Kyaw… - Tribology …, 2023 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The absorber is a vital part of a solar air collector and has a significant impact on the overall
efficiency of a solar air heating unit. The objective of this research is to examine and …