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Thermo-hydraulic performance enhancement of a solar air heater using rotating cylindrical turbulators

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APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
卷 236, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121748

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Computational fluid dynamics; Solar energy; Rotating ribs; Cylindrical ribs; Nusselt number; Energy

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In this study, the concept of using rotating cylindrical ribs as artificial roughness in a solar air heater was investigated using computational fluid dynamics. The results showed that perpendicular ribs configuration was more desirable than parallel configuration, and rotating ribs outperformed other static ribs.
A novel concept of rotating cylindrical ribs as artificial roughness in a solar air heater to enhance its thermohydraulic performance factor has been investigated using 3D computational fluid dynamics. The rotational speed is varied from 2000 RPM to 10,000 RPM on the static ribs optimised for height (e), diameter (d), longitudinal pitch (P), and transverse pitch (S) at Reynolds number (Re) ranging from 5000 to 24000. The optimised static ribs configuration having e = 3.5 mm, d = 3 mm, S = 20 mm, and P/e = 10 is experimentally validated to establish the accuracy of rotating ribs performance computed using computational fluid dynamics. The maximum thermo-hydraulic performance factor of 1.89 is achieved-32 % higher than the best performance for static ribs-using rotational ribs for the rotational speed of 10,000 RPM at Re = 5000. A comparison between parallel and perpendicular orientations of rotating ribs with respect to the absorber plate establishes that perpendicular ribs configuration is highly desirable to reduce the pressure drop penalty, in turn, enhancing the thermo-hydraulic performance. The performances of the proposed perpendicularly oriented rotating cylindrical ribs are also compared with the performances reported in the literature for static ribs of different shapes having the same orientation with respect to absorber plate and it is observed that rotational ribs outperforms all the other static ribs.

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