Thermal performance of a simple design solar air heater with built-in thermal energy storage system

Hassan E.S. Fath

Renewable Energy, 1995, vol. 6, issue 8, 1033-1039

Abstract: The thermal performance of a simple design solar air heater is presented. The conventional flatplate absorber is replaced by a set of tubes filled with a thermal-energy storage material. The proposed integrated system heat-transfer area and heat-transfer coefficient are increased and the heat loss is reduced. Based on a simple transient analysis, explicit expressions for the heater absorber and glass cover temperatures, effective heat gained, outlet air temperature, and the heater efficiency have been developed as a function of time. The integrated system performance curves are presented and a marked improvement in system performance is noticed over the conventional flat-plate heater system.

Date: 1995
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0960148194000856
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:6:y:1995:i:8:p:1033-1039

DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(94)00085-6

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().