A detailed review of various types of solar air heaters performance

HK Ghritlahre, M Verma, JS Parihar, DS Mondloe… - Solar energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy is an endless and environmentally benign renewable energy source. Among
all the forms of solar thermal energy systems, solar air heater is the major system which is …

A critical review of photovoltaic–thermal solar collectors for air heating

R Kumar, MA Rosen - Applied Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Integrated photovoltaic–thermal solar collectors have become of great interest in the solar
thermal and photovoltaic (PV) research communities. Solar thermal systems and solar PV …

An improved thermal and electrical model for a solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) air collector

F Sarhaddi, S Farahat, H Ajam, A Behzadmehr… - Applied energy, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, an attempt is made to investigate the thermal and electrical performance of a
solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) air collector. A detailed thermal and electrical model is …

Exergetic optimization of flat plate solar collectors

S Farahat, F Sarhaddi, H Ajam - Renewable energy, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, an exergetic optimization of flat plate solar collectors is developed to determine
the optimal performance and design parameters of these solar to thermal energy conversion …

Exergetic performance prediction of solar air heater using MLP, GRNN and RBF models of artificial neural network technique

HK Ghritlahre, RK Prasad - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study three different types of neural models: multi-layer perceptron (MLP),
generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and radial basis function (RBF) has been …

Energy and exergy analysis of typical renewable energy systems

SR Park, AK Pandey, VV Tyagi, SK Tyagi - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of renewable energy systems for real life applications has been increasing for the
last few decades due to the growing concern about the global warming and environmental …

Experimental and numerical investigation of a novel photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) collector with the energy and exergy analysis

E Arslan, M Aktaş, ÖF Can - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
The high energy costs and environmental factors in energy systems cause pushed
researchers to produce both heat and electricity from a single collector. In this context …

Exergetic and exergoeconomic analysis of a novel hybrid solar–geothermal polygeneration system producing energy and water

F Calise, MD d'Accadia, A Macaluso… - Energy Conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A dynamic simulation model of a novel solar–geothermal polygeneration system and the
related exergetic and exergoeconomic analyses are presented in this paper. The plant is …

Energy and exergy analysis of a new flat-plate solar air heater having different obstacles on absorber plates

EK Akpinar, F Koçyiğit - Applied energy, 2010 - Elsevier
This study experimentally investigates performance analysis of a new flat-plate solar air
heater (SAH) with several obstacles (Type I, Type II, Type III) and without obstacles (Type …

Exergy analysis of solar energy applications

R Saidur, G BoroumandJazi, S Mekhlif… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
Solar energy is a clean, abundant and easily available renewable energy. Usage of solar
energy in different kinds of systems provides scope for several studies on exergy analysis. In …