Recent developments and advancements in solar air heaters: a detailed review

VP Singh, S Jain, A Karn, A Kumar, G Dwivedi… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The scientific literature extensively mentions the use of a solar air heater (SAH) by utilizing
solar energy for heating purposes. The poor heat-transfer rate of an SAH with a flat plate is …

A review on recent developments in thermal performance enhancement methods of flat plate solar air collector

E Vengadesan, R Senthil - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent studies on thermal performance enhancement of the flat plate solar air collectors
are critically reviewed primarily regarding the absorber surface modifications, multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Heat transfer and friction factor correlations development for double pass solar air heater artificially roughened with perforated multi-V ribs

VP Singh, S Jain, A Karn, G Dwivedi, A Kumar… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermo-hydraulic performance of a Double Pass Parallel Flow Solar Air Heater (DPPFSAH)
roughened with perforated multi-V ribs has been studied experimentally in a prior study and …

Impact of hybrid roughness geometry on heat transfer augmentation in solar air heater: A review

S Chaurasia, V Goel, A Debbarma - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
An effective method to increase the heat transfer rate of fluid flowing in a solar air heater duct
(SAHD) is to apply artificial roughness geometry over the absorber plate. The heat …

Heat transfer augmentation in solar heat exchanger duct with louver-punched V-baffles

P Promvonge, P Promthaisong, S Skullong - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A vortex generator's ability to create secondary flow and accelerate rapid fluid mixing allows
it to effectively improve thermal performance in a solar heat exchanger duct. A newly created …

Artificially roughened solar air heating technology–A comprehensive review

YD Khimsuriya, DK Patel, Z Said, H Panchal… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
For various heating applications like space heating, timber seasoning, food drying, HVAC
processes, water desalination processes, etc., where a low to medium heating source is …

Thermo-hydraulic performance analysis of a solar air heater (SAH) with quarter-circular ribs on the absorber plate: A comparative study

Y Mahanand, JR Senapati - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The thermo-hydraulic characteristics of a solar air heater with quarter-circular ribs on the
absorber plate are studied numerically. A comparison of the three different arrangements of …

A comparative study of fluid flow and heat transfer in the tube with multi-V-winglets vortex generators

X Wu, T Fu, J Wang, L Zeng, F Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new multi-V-winglets vortex generator was proposed and its influence on
fluid flow and thermal transfer was studied. It was found that the thermal transfer was …

Experimental and numerical thermal performance in solar receiver heat exchanger with trapezoidal louvered winglet and wavy groove

P Promvonge, P Promthaisong, S Skullong - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A numerical and experimental study on the thermal–hydraulic performance of a solar
receiver heat exchanger (SRH) equipped with a newly designed longitudinal-vortex …

3D simulation and parametric optimization of a solar air heater with a novel staggered cuboid baffles

H Parsa, M Saffar-Avval, MR Hajmohammadi - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal performance enhancement of solar air heaters is critical for efficient utilization of
energy. In the present work, a numerical study and parametric optimization of turbulent …