A review on recent developments in thermal performance enhancement methods of flat plate solar air collector

E Vengadesan, R Senthil - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent studies on thermal performance enhancement of the flat plate solar air collectors
are critically reviewed primarily regarding the absorber surface modifications, multiple …

Short review on various applications of fuzzy logic-based expert systems in the field of solar energy

M Sridharan - International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cognitive modelling is an interdisciplinary area of computer science that deals with
simulating human problem-solving and mental processing through a computerised model …

Effect of the absorber surface roughness on the performance of a solar air collector: an experimental investigation

B Das, JD Mondol, S Debnath, A Pugsley, M Smyth… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar air collectors (SAC) convert the available solar energy into useful thermal energy for
different heating applications such as drying, space heating, hot water etc. The study aims to …

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 of air-based photovoltaic thermal collector with fully and partially covered photovoltaic module

P Jha, B Das, R Gupta - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study is to explore the performance of air-based photovoltaic
thermal (PV/T) collector to generate both thermal and electrical energy. Outdoor tests are …

Energy matrices evaluation of a conventional and modified partially covered photovoltaic thermal collector

P Jha, B Das, R Gupta - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Partially covered photovoltaic thermal collector (PVT-C) unit has the capability of generating
high thermal energy/exergy and a meaningful electrical energy. This study is aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Exergetic performance assesment of a downward solar air heater with impinging air jets-An experimental study

M Harikrishnan, RA Kumar, R Baby, D Percy… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
The main objective of the present study is to perform an in-depth exergetic analysis on a
downward solar air heater (SAHRR) in two configurations: one incorporating impinging air …

Performance evaluation of sand coated absorber based solar air collector

J Reddy, S Roy, B Das - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation into solar air collectors (SACs) was done in the atmospheric
conditions at RLJIT-Bangalore, Southern part of India. Three novel SACs were developed by …

Energy and exergy analysis of a trapezoidal absorber plate‐based solar air collector

J Reddy, Jagadish, S Negi, B Das… - Energy Science & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents energy and exergy characteristics of solar air collectors (SACs) having
two different absorber plates, namely flat (Model‐I) and trapezoidal (Model‐II) plates …

Energy and exergy analysis of solar air heater with trapezoidal ribs based absorber: A comparative analysis

S Gogada, S Roy, A Gupta, B Das… - Energy Science & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of a solar air heater (SAH) is computationally investigated in this study
using COMSOL multiphysics software. The present study aims to enhance the performance …