Enhancing the optical and thermal efficiency of a parabolic trough collector–A review

GK Manikandan, S Iniyan, R Goic - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Among the various available renewable energy sources such as wind, geothermal, tidal, bio
mass, etc., harnessing of solar energy has become quite popular in most of the countries …

Review of heat transfer enhancement methods: Focus on passive methods using swirl flow devices

M Sheikholeslami, M Gorji-Bandpy, DD Ganji - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
Economic reasons (material and energy saving) leads to make efforts for making more
efficient heat exchange. The heat transfer enhancement techniques are widely used in many …

A comprehensive review on passive heat transfer enhancements in pipe exchangers

S Liu, M Sakr - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Enhancing heat transfer surface are used in many engineering applications such as heat
exchanger, air conditioning, chemical reactor and refrigeration systems, hence many …

[HTML][HTML] The heat transfer enhancement techniques and their thermal performance factor

C Maradiya, J Vadher, R Agarwal - Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat transfer devices have been used for conversion and recovery of heat in many industrial
and domestic applications. Over five decades, there has been concerted effort to develop …

Experimental study of heat transfer and pressure drop analysis of the air/water two-phase flow in a double tube heat exchanger equipped with dual twisted tape …

S Pourahmad, SM Pesteei, H Ravaeei… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, simultaneous use of active and passive methods for enhancing the thermal
performance of a double-tube heat exchanger was investigated. This was done by injecting …

Heat transfer augmentation using twisted tape inserts: a review

MO Garg, H Nautiyal, S Khurana, MK Shukla - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heat transfer enhancement is an important matter of concern for energy conservation and
also beneficial from economic point of view. The use of passive devices like twisted tapes …

Analysis of internal helically finned tubes for parabolic trough design by CFD tools

J Muñoz, A Abánades - Applied energy, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper has analysed the effect of the utilization of internal finned tubes for the design of
parabolic trough collectors with computational fluid dynamics tools. Our numerical approach …

Heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in a double pipe heat exchanger with louvered strip inserts

HA Mohammed, HA Hasan, MA Wahid - International Communications in …, 2013 - Elsevier
The effect of using louvered strip inserts placed in a circular double pipe heat exchanger on
the thermal and flow fields utilizing various types of nanofluids is studied numerically. The …

Numerical investigation of the flow and heat transfer of Al2O3/water nanofluid in a tube equipped with stationary and self-rotating twisted tapes

GF Smaisim, M Gholami, D Toghraie… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the rotating twisted tape and its effect on fluid flow and heat transfer as well as
Performance Evaluation Criterion (PEC) in a tube under constant heat flux is investigated …

Experimental investigation of perforated twisted tapes turbulator on thermal performance in double pipe heat exchangers

A Vaisi, R Moosavi, M Lashkari, MM Soltani - Chemical Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the experimental effect of the continuous and discontinuous twisted tapes
turbulator (perforated and non-perforated) on the inner side of the internal tube in the double …