" A REVIEW ON CORRUGATED PLATE SOLAR STORAGE/ COLLECTOR TYPE OF WATER HEATER"

mechanical engineering

Nowadays, water heating by using the solar energy has been spread all over the world. The studies on solar water heating system were stimulated the researchers due to the scarcity of natural energy resources, like fossil fuel and natural gas as well as the rising and rapidly fluctuating prices for these resources. The purpose of this study is to design and manufacture a new storage domestic water heater with solar collector. In this project integrated solar/collector type of water heater is designed, the flat absorber plate is replaced by corrugated shaped absorber plate. The corrugated shaped absorber plate will enhance the rate of heat transfer between the plate and water in contact. The proposed corrugated plate collector is designed and fabricated by local available materials. In present work 105L of the collector is designed and developed the plate area designed is about 1.5m2 Moreover, in the present work a simple CFD model of the proposed design of the corrugated plate collector is presented which includes all the modes of heat transfer convection, conduction and radiation from the glass cover, absorber plate water and bottom of the flat plate collector. For the sake of simplicity, the side losses from the collector is not considered the heat capacity of the glass cover and the absorber plate.

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