Improved Thermal Performance of Solar Air Heater Using V-Rib with Symmetrical Gap and Staggered Rib
Journal Title: International Journal of engineering Research and Applications - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
The most efficient technique to increase the performance of solar air heater is to enhance the heat transfer by using artificial roughness in form of repeatedly used ribs on the absorbing heated absorber plate. In order to analyse the thermal performance and flow pattern of rectangular duct with aspect ratio (W/H) of 8, the present experimental investigation is performed with V-rib with Symmetrical Gap and Staggered Rib. The experiment has covered a Reynolds number (Re) range of 3000-14000, rib height 2 mm, pitch (P) 24mm, relative roughness pitch (P/e) of 12, gap width (g) 8mm, relative gap width (g/e) as 4 and angle of attack (α) 60o , number of gaps on each sides of V-rib (Ng) 3, relative roughness height (e/Dh) 0.045, staggered rib pitch (P’) 15.6mm, relative staggered rib pitch (P’/P) 0.65, staggered rib size (w) 20mm and relative staggered rib size (w/g) 2.5. Results have been compared with the smooth plate under similar flow condition to determine the enhancement in heat transfer and improvement in efficiency. Relative staggered rib pitch was kept at 0.65 and staggered rib size was kept as 2.5 times gap width.
Authors and Affiliations
Piyush Kumar Jain, Dr. Atul Lanjewar
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