ISSN 2319-5347, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 03 NO. 02 APRIL 2015:

Title:           Performance of Circular Solar collector for Close Water Open Air (CWOA) Air heated humidification-dehumidification process for finding the effect of Air flow rate on efficiency of solar air heater
Authors:      Anil Motiram Patel, Mandar Mukundrav Sumant, V. Siva Reddy
Abstract:   It is introduced, a solar circular collector, arrange in parallel where blower is connected in cooperation with main fold of mild steel pipe having small thickness .Collector design in such a way that air flow in each absorber tube is uniform. Four assamblies of collector is opened in air outlet unit where air received. The experiments are conducted for varying flow rate of air during a day time, and also using solar radiation of clean day through the seasons. The efficiency of solar air heater is decrease in time periods of afternoon and increase at the morning and evening, its due to fact that the heat gain during afternoon is decrease due to increase in ambient temperature and also at the same time duration solar radiation received on collector surface is high. Moreover, the heat transfer performance of the solar air heater with single circular glass-covers air passes is analyzed, and the heat transfer method for calculation are applied.

Keywords:   Circular water collector, Air Flow Rate, Heat Loss, Collector Efficiency, Heat Gain
Pages:          130-136

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