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JOURNAL:MAZEDAN JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE
| # | Authors | First Online | DOI | Downloads | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | NISHA AGRAHARI*, RAHUL DEV | 17 Jun 2021 | na | 23 | 0 |
A modified design of a Solar Water Heater is proposed in this paper for getting the better thermal performance by making several changes in the existing design. The design modification includes improvement over individual drawbacks of 'Flat plate collector (FPC)' and 'Evacuated tubular collector (ETC)'. A performance study of a solar water heating system with a 1.6 m2 aperture area of a modified collector has been carried out. The thermal model of the proposed Modified Solar Water Heater (MSWH) has been derived to analyze theoretically the effect of wind velocity and the number of acrylic tubes. The maximum temperature of the collector outlet is found to be 72.24 °C in May 2015. It is observed that on increasing the wind velocity from 0 to 5 m/s, the hot water temperature falls from 72.46 ?C to 68.60?C for given input parameters. It has also been found that as the number of acrylic tubes increases, the temperatures of hot and cold water also increase e.g., increasing the number of tubes from 16 to 32, the temperatures of hot water are found 72.24?C and cold water is 91.45?C. The outcomes of the experimental analysis are very much useful for the development of a high-performance solar heater
Solar water heater, evacuated tube, flat plate collector, sun light, solar energy, water heater
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