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Experimental Investigation on Thermal Performance of Solar Air Collector Provided with Corrugated Absorber

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The study is concern about the effects of solar air collector length. In this research, effects of collector length on the temperature as well as Nusselt number have been discussed for corrugated absorber plate. The mass flow rates are used in the range of 20–40 kg/h m2 through five steps having two different tilt angle and single as well as double glazing cover. Better heat transfer is occurred, collector with double glazing having 45° inclination. During heat transfer, enhancement heat is transferred from absorber to working fluid and Nusselt number (Nu) is found to be 325 which is higher as compared to others. In the entire cases, double glazing collector shows better enhancement from single glazing collector. In the consideration of two inclinations, 45° inclination displays improved outcomes as associated to 30° inclination. The highest absorber temperature is observed at double glazing with 45° inclination which is 99°.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh Engineering Colleges, Landran, Mohali, India

    Suman Debnath, Mukesh Kumar, Vikas Kumar, Amol Saini & Kunal Salwan

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, GBPIET, Pauri Garhwal, India

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Debnath, S., Kumar, M., Kumar, V., Saini, A., Salwan, K., Ravi, R. (2021). Experimental Investigation on Thermal Performance of Solar Air Collector Provided with Corrugated Absorber. In: Baredar, P.V., Tangellapalli, S., Solanki, C.S. (eds) Advances in Clean Energy Technologies . Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0235-1_88

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