Comparative thermal performance investigation of the straight tube and square tube solar water heater
Mechanical Engineering Department, LDRP- Institute of Technology & Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(01), 727–735
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.1.1388
Publication history:
Received on 02 June 2023; revised on 14 July 2023; accepted on 16 July 2023
Abstract:
Sustainable energy is a need and demand of time to overcome issues related to greenhouse emissions and climate change and the most easily available and sustainable energy is solar energy which can be used for heating, cooking, and power generation. The most common application of solar energy is water heating and such hot water is used for domestic and industrial purposes for such purposes solar water heater (SWH) is commonly used; in the present work, an attempt has been made by changing the shape of pipe of copper pipe which is commonly used in SWH from a circular cross-section to square and comparing the results of the proposed model with conventional one. The K-type thermocouples measure the temperature at various locations of the experimental setup.
Keywords:
Solar Water Heater; K-type thermocouples; Straight Tube; Square Tube
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