Performance enhancement of flat-plate and parabolic trough solar collector using nanofluid for water heating application

MAER Abu-Zeid, Y Elhenawy, M Bassyouni… - Results in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Flat plate solar collector (FPSC) and parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) are widely used
for residential solar water heating (SWH) applications. This work studied two different solar …

Performance investigation on flat plate solar water collector using a hybrid nano-enhanced phase change material (PCM)

R Bharathiraja, T Ramkumar, L Karthick… - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study examines and discusses the results of empirical measurements taken on
a flat plate solar collector with water heater that utilizes paraffin wax as an enduring and …

Experimental and simulation analysis of a PV/T system under the pattern of natural circulation

Q Shi, J Lv, C Guo, B Zheng - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Because of the high resistance caused by photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) systems, the
improved electrical energy due to fluid's cooling is much less than energy consumption of …

Experimental and numerical analysis of hybrid nano-enhanced phase change material (PCM) based flat plate solar collector

R Bharathiraja, T Ramkumar, M Selvakumar… - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present investigation examines a flat-plate solar collector (FPC) with a water heater that
employs paraffin wax as a durable Phase change material (PCM) for solar energy storage …

Dynamic model and experimental validation of an indirect thermosyphon solar water heater coupled with a parallel circular tube rings type heat exchange coil

KK Tse, TT Chow - Solar Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This article introduces the design of an indirect thermosyphon solar water heating system
coupled with a parallel circular tube rings type heat exchanger. The proposed heat …

[PDF][PDF] Solar ETC Type Water Heaters an Analysis Based on CFD Packages

AK Raj, K Dileep, S Jayaraj - Indian Journal …, 2017 - sciresol.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws …
Objectives: A comparative numerical analysis is conducted, to emphasize the capability of
an open source CFD package (OpenFOAM) over the commercial CFD package of ANSYS …

Theoretical and experimental analyses of heat transfer in a flat-plate solar collector

BO Bolaji, IO ABIALA - Walailak Journal of Science and Technology …, 2012 - wjst.wu.ac.th
In this paper, the heat transfer in a flat-plate solar collector with water tubes spreading
across its width was analyzed. The performances of the system both theoretically and …

Design, fabrication and performance evaluation of natural circulation rectangular box-type solar domestic water heating system

MMA Khan, ABM Abdul Malek… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This study includes design and experimental analysis of a solar domestic water heating
system. Water heating systems with glazed and unglazed collectors were constructed and …

Performance Analysis of Solar Water Heater in NEH Region of India.

MS Seveda - International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy, 2013 - intjsts.org
In the present study, a natural circulation closed thermosyphon flat plate solar water heater
has been tested at the College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology …

Steady state analysis on efficiency improving methods for series flat plate solar water heaters

M Sridharan, E Siva Prakash… - Applied mechanics and …, 2014 - Trans Tech Publ
Now a day's different types of solar flat plate collectors are in use. Out of which only few type
of collectors proved their performance by producing better results of expected level. In this …