A comprehensive study on the progressive development and applications of solar air heaters

V Goel, VS Hans, S Singh, R Kumar, SK Pathak… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of solar air heaters (SAH) for the collection and effective utilization of solar
radiations for thermal applications is widely reported in the literature. The current article …

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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of solar air collector technologies: Performance evaluation, structure design and application analysis

J Zhang, T Zhu - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022 - Elsevier
A solar air collector (SAC) is a main device of a solar-thermal air system, which can absorb
solar radiation and transfer the absorbed thermal energy to the air. This paper presents a …

Establishment of correlations for the thermo-hydraulic parameters due to perforation in a multi-V rib roughened single pass solar air heater

VP Singh, S Jain, A Kumar - Experimental Heat Transfer, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of variation in open area ratio (β) in a multi-V rib roughened Single-Pass Solar Air
Heater (SPSAH) is analyzed in this work. Fixing values of other parameters, such as open …

[HTML][HTML] The heat transfer enhancement techniques and their thermal performance factor

C Maradiya, J Vadher, R Agarwal - Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat transfer devices have been used for conversion and recovery of heat in many industrial
and domestic applications. Over five decades, there has been concerted effort to develop …

Experimental and CFD investigation of convection heat transfer in solar air heater with reverse L-shaped ribs

VB Gawande, AS Dhoble, DB Zodpe, S Chamoli - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A solar air heater is a thermal system which uses artificial roughness in the form of repeated
ribs on the absorber plate to enhance the heat transfer rate. Forced convection heat transfer …

Numerical and experimental study of the heat transfer and hydraulic performance of solar air heaters with different baffle positions

CE Bensaci, A Moummi, FJS de la Flor, EAR Jara… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents the results of a numerical and experimental study of the position of the
baffles in a solar air heater in order to improve its thermal and hydraulic performance. The …

Thermal performance enhancement in heat exchangers using active and passive techniques: a detailed review

S Bhattacharyya, DK Vishwakarma… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Springer
The objective of this article is to study the work carried out in heat transfer augmentation
using active and passive techniques. A comprehensive summary of the work is highlighted …

A CFD based thermo-hydraulic performance analysis of an artificially roughened solar air heater having equilateral triangular sectioned rib roughness on the absorber …

AS Yadav, JL Bhagoria - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
In this article, a numerical investigation is conducted to analyze the two-dimensional
incompressible Navier–Stokes flows through the artificially roughened solar air heater for …