CFD Analysis of Circular Pipe Flat Plate Solar Collector
Journal Title: International journal of Emerging Trends in Science and Technology - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Solar energy is available in abundance but least used energy source of available renewable energy resources. Solar Energy is being used for some household and commercial purposes like producing steam for commercial usage, heating of water to maintain the indoor temperature of houses etc. Water heating requires heat, which is produced usually with burning of fuels (Methane, Gasoline) and these fuels are costly and causes pollution at burning, but if we use solar energy which is available for almost 10-12 hours in almost every country, we can save a lot. This paper attempts to make the numerical simulation of flat plate solar collectors. Simulation is an important tool for the design and operation control. Design engineers use simulation results to design water heating systems, simulation makes it possible to find the optimal design and operating parameters. In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools have been used to simulate solar collectors to better understand heat transfer capacity. Three-dimensional model of the U-tube collectors and flat absorber plate is obtained using Solid Works. The results obtained by the use of ANSYS FLUENT software. The purpose of this work is to better understand the relative computational fluid dynamics flow of the solar collector and the temperature distribution within solar collector. Outlet air temperature and solar radiation are compared and between them there is a good consistency. Our project is basically in our study design optimization, we can use our results to improve the efficiency of flat plate solar collector theory in the future. These results can also be used for design purposes.
Authors and Affiliations
Zhang Jun
The Effect of Cutting Parameter towards Surface Roughness in Conventional Turning
The study was conducted with depth of cut, cutting speed, and cutting length as cutting parameters by referring surface roughness as a standard. In the study, cutting parameter variations which were applied were 0.25 mm,...
A study of production inventory model of deteriorating items in an imperfect production process
The paper describes an EMQ (Economic Manufacturing Quantity ) model for a deteriorating item considering time-dependent demand. The deterioration rate is a constant fraction of the on hand inventory and we have considere...
Comparative Study of SiGe MOSFET with Single Substrate MOSFET Using Visual TCAD
A comparative study of SiGe based MOS transistor with single Si and Ge based MOS transistors has been investigated. The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of SiGe MOSFET which shows some significantly...
A Review on Selective Catalytic Reduction for NOX Reduction
The energy requirement has increased rapidly all over the world due to industrialisation and the changes of subsequent lifestyle. Most of this energy is generated from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, gasoline, an...
Performance of DSTATCOM in Conjunction with DG Operation for Power - Quality Improvement
With the increase in the use of renewable sources, application of Distributed Generation in the distribution system has acquired more attention. Distributed Generation has become increasingly more accepted since the dema...