ANALYSIS OF FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER OF SOLAR FLAT PLATE COLLECTOR BY USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

HEAT POWER ENGINEERING

Energy crisis is becoming a major problem which is faced by all over the world. In order to control this energy crisis problem many research are performed using renewable energy sources like using solar energy instead of electrical and fuel energy, because solar energy is free of cost and environmentally friendly. There have been many studies to improve the performance of the solar water heater. Heating water for domestic purpose is a simple and effective way of utilizing solar energy. Initial cost of solar water heating system is high but we get zero green energy cost..The specific objective of this study is to analyses the heat transfer through solar flat collector with used différent types of insertion. Also experimental study on the flow pattern of water inside riser tubes are investigated and obtained results experimentally analyse validation withComputational Fluid Dynamics.The approche for study basically consists of used experimental setup and used ANSYS Fluent for determining the flow pattern inside riser tubes.Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photo voltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and photosynthesis.

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