Alobaid, M.S., Hughes, B.H., Heyes, A. et al. (1 more author) (2018) Determining the effect of inlet flow conditions on the thermal efficiency of a flat plate solar collector. Fluids, 3 (3). 67. ISSN 2311-5521
Abstract
The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of inlet temperature (Tin) and flowrate ( m˙ ) on thermal efficiency (ηth) of flat plate collectors (FPC). Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was employed to simulate a FPC and the results were validated with experimental data from literature. The FPC was examined for high and low level flowrates and for inlet temperatures which varied from 298 to 373 K. Thermal efficiency of 93% and 65% was achieved at 298 K and 370 K inlet temperature’s respectively. A maximum temperature increase of 62 K in the inlet temperature was achieved at a flowrate of 5 × 10−4 kg/s inside the riser pipe. Tin and m˙ were optimised in order to achieve the minimum required feed temperature for a 10 kW absorption chiller.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | CFD; solar collector; FPC; outlet water temperature; thermal efficiency; solar cooling; heat transfer |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Mechanical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2018 15:48 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2018 15:48 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids3030067 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/fluids3030067 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135845 |