A comprehensive review on single phase heat transfer enhancement techniques in heat exchanger applications

T Alam, MH Kim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to review the different techniques, which have been used to
enhance the heat transfer rate in heat exchanger devices such as solar air heater, cooling …

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 …

Comprehensive energy, exergy, enviro-exergy, and thermo-hydraulic performance assessment of a flat plate solar air heater with different obstacles

VM Avargani, S Zendehboudi, A Rahimi… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although obstacles on the absorber surface of a solar air heater (SAH) can increase the
thermal efficiency by creating turbulent conditions, they might reduce the system's exergy …

Sustainable approaches for performance enhancement of the double pass solar air heater equipped with energy storage system: A comprehensive review

H Pachori, P Baredar, T Sheorey, B Gupta… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current studies on the thermohydraulic performance enhancement of solar air heaters
are carefully reviewed regarding increasing surface area by double-pass solar air heaters …

Influence of artificial roughness parametric variation on thermal performance of solar thermal collector: An experimental study, response surface analysis and ANN …

R Kumar, R Nadda, S Kumar, A Razak… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The influence of the attack angle (α a) of the perforated baffles on thermohydraulic
performance η p of a solar thermal collector (STC) has been investigated experimentally …

Experimental investigation of heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of solar air heater using wavy delta winglets

JS Sawhney, R Maithani, S Chamoli - Applied thermal engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present work experimental investigation on the heat transfer and friction
characteristics of a solar air heater duct roughened with wavy-up delta winglet vortex …

Thermal behavior in a solar air heater channel roughened with delta-shaped vortex generators

MT Baissi, A Brima, K Aoues, R Khanniche… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the various techniques used in strengthening the Solar Air Heater (SAH) through
extended surfaces (obstacles) on the absorber plate, its thermal performance remains far …

Performance improvement of double-pass solar air heater–A state of art of review

T Alam, MH Kim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of the various heat transfer
techniques used to increase the performance of double-pass solar air heaters (SAHs). The …

[HTML][HTML] Exergy and sustainability analysis of a solar heat collector with wavy delta winglets as turbulent promoters: a numerical analysis

R Maithani, A Kumar, MA Ali, NK Gupta… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
This numerical study aims to determine the exergy analysis for a modified solar heat
collector (SHC) having wavy delta winglets as turbulent promoters. These winglets disrupt …

Experimental investigation on heat transfer augmentation of solar air heater using shot blasted V-corrugated absorber plate

GK Poongavanam, K Panchabikesan, AJD Leo… - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present work, an experimental investigation on surface modified solar air heater was
carried out to study the rate of heat transfer and friction characteristics under the laminar flow …