CFD and experimental investigation of flat plate solar water heating system under steady state condition

被引：79

作者：

Gunjo, Dawit Gudeta ^{[1
]}

Mahanta, Pinakeswar ^{[1
]}

Robi, P. S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Indian Inst Technol Guwahati, Dept Mech Engn, Gauhati 781039, Assam, India

来源：

RENEWABLE ENERGY | 2017年 / 106卷

关键词：

Absorber plate temperature; CFD; Outlet temperature; Solar thermal flat plate collector; Thermal performance; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; COLLECTOR; OPTIMIZATION; HEATER; SIMULATION; ENERGY; AIR; VALIDATION; LOSSES; DESIGN;

D O I：

10.1016/j.renene.2016.12.041

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

The absorber plate and outlet water temperature of a solar flat plate collector with straight riser and header arrangement is investigated. The effect of different operating parameters, viz., inlet water temperature, solar insolation, ambient temperature, and mass flow rate on the outlet water temperature and thermal efficiency were studied. Both the closed as well as open loop solar water heating system is considered for the present investigation. It is observed that the thermal efficiency of the solar water heating system increases with ambient temperature, solar insolation, and mass flow rate of water. However, thermal efficiency decreases as inlet water temperature increases. Numerical simulations were carried out using a 3-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to predict the outlet water and absorber plate temperatures using the experimental values of solar insolation, ambient temperature and inlet water temperature within one hour interval. The CFD results were validated with the experimental results. It was found that the developed model could predict the outlet water and absorber plate temperature of the heating system with reasonable accuracy.(C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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