Effect of Tubular Solar Absorber on Performance of Counterflow Double Pass Solar Air Heater: Experimental and Numerical Studies

Hussein, N. F.; Ahmed, S. T.; Ekaid, A. L.

doi:10.5829/ije.2022.35.10a.18

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“…The authors in 11 examined the thermal performance of two counter flow double pass solar air heater (DPSAH) systems. In the first arrangement, a typical flat plate solar absorber was used, while in the second, water-filled tubular capsules were used as a sensible heat storage medium.…”

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Red pepper drying with a double pass solar air heater integrated with aluminium cans

Admass,

Salau,

Mhari

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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In this paper, an experimental evaluation of a newly developed flat plate double pass solar air heater combined with aluminum cans for drying red pepper was presented. The proposed solar dryer system was designed, modeled, and evaluated. Solar air heater trials were carried out using the absorber’s top and bottom plate and aluminum cans for red pepper drying at Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. To test the solar dryer, 100 pieces of red paper were obtained from the Bahir Dar region of Ethiopia for the purpose of experimentation. Microsoft Excel was used to perform statistical analysis of eleven mathematical models. The results show that the mixed-mode solar greenhouse dryer takes less time to dry red pepper than the open solar dryer. In the midday, the solar insolation reached 973 W/m2 and the minimum solar insolation was 220 W/m2 and air is expelled at a rate of 0.0383 kg/s. According to the experimental results, the dryers chamber temperature ranged from 30.9 to 54 °C, while the ambient temperature was between 22.6 and 28.2 °C. The mixed-mode double pass achieves up to 46% and 28% efficiency when used with aluminum can dryers and conventional open sun dryers, respectively. A drying rate of 0.0003395 kg/s was achieved for the open sun dryer system and 0.0000365 kg/s for the mixed mode solar dryer. Using mixed-mode and open-sun solar dryers, the logarithmic model was found to be most effective in explaining the red pepper behavior. Furthermore, a comparison was made between the experimental and predicted moisture ratios through the calculation of the coefficient of determination (R2), the reduced chi-square (X2), and the root mean square error (RMSE). The results show that the logarithmic model achieved the highest value of the correlation coefficient (R2), which was determined to be 0.9978 and 0.9989, while the logarithmic model achieved the lowest value of Chi-square (X2).

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Red pepper drying with a double pass solar air heater integrated with aluminium cans

Admass,

Salau,

Mhari

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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“…N. F. Hussein investigated the thermal efficiency of two counterflow double-pass solar air heater configurations: conventional flat plate absorbers and waterfilled tubular capsules. Due to the thermal storage substance, tubular capsules considerably increase the useful energy production of heaters and lengthen their lifespan [8]. Basim A. R. AL-Bakri examined the thermal efficiency of single-pass, double-pass, and triple-pass solar air heaters with pin fins.…”

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Analysis of Thermal Performance of Double Flow Finned Absorber Solar Air Heater

Linn,

Swe,

Soe

et al. 2023

icat

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This paper investigated the thermal performance of a solar air collector with attached rectangular fins both theoretically and experimentally. The effects of mass flow rate (0.015 kg/s to 0.06 kg/s) and fin spacing on thermal performance and temperature rise were investigated using varying solar radiation intensity (500, 600, 700, and 800 W/m2). The results show that, when using a finned absorber instead of a plane absorber, the maximum thermal efficiency of 1.264 times was achieved. Additionally, at a lower mass flow rate of 0.015 kg/s, a maximum increase in temperature rise has been observed to be 1.243 times greater than that of a plane absorber.

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