Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 131, 2017
UTP-UMP Symposium on Energy Systems 2017 (SES 2017)
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Article Number | 01003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Fundamental and applied thermal engineering | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201713101003 | |
Published online | 25 October 2017 |
Investigation of thermal behaviour, pressure drop, and pumping power in a Cu nanofluid-filled solar flat-plate collector
1 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 31750, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia
2 Shahid Beheshti University, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, 16765–1719, Tehran, Iran
3 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 500085, Hyderabad, India
* Corresponding author: morteza.assadi@utp.edu.my
The evaluations of the performance of solar flat-plate collectors are reported in the literature. A computer program developed by MATLAB has been applied for modelling the performance of a solar collector under steady state laminar conditions. Results demonstrate that Cu-water nanofluid would be capable of boosting the thermal efficiency of the collector by 2.4% at 4% volume concentration in the case of using Cunanofluid instead of just water as the working fluid. It is noteworthy that, dispersing the nanoparticles into the water results in a higher pressure drop and, therefore, a higher power consumption for pumping the nanofluid within the collector. It has been estimated for the collector understudy, that the increase in the pressure drop and pumping power to be around 30%.
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