Performance Assessment of Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Different Nanofluids

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 193 - 200, 30.09.2019

Mustafa Asker Tukur Sani Gadanya

https://doi.org/10.17350/HJSE19030000147

Cited By: 3

Abstract

In this work, a numerical study has been performed to investigate the performance of a Flat plate solar collector FPSC using five different nanofluids including Al2 O3 , CeO2 , Cu, SiO2 , and TiO2 as the working fluid with a volume fraction VF range of 0-2% and mass flow rate of 0.02kg/s. A computer program written in MATLAB is developed and the equations are solved in an iterative approach to obtain the output temperature. The model is validated through a comparison with an experimental data that is taken from the literature and a good agreement is obtained. A parametric study is done to investigate the effects of VF’s on the performance of the collector. The analyses have been conducted for the city of Aydın in Turkey. The results show that for VF of 2%, the maximum efficiency augmentation is observed in SiO2 nanofluid by 10%.

Keywords

Flat Plate Solar Collector, Nusselt Number, Thermal Performance, Nanofluid, Entropy

References

• 1. Alima MA, Abdin Z, Saidur R, Hepbasli A, Khairul MA, Rahim NA. Analyses of entropy generation and pressure drop for a conventional flat plate solar collector using different types of metal oxide nanofluids. Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 289-296.
• 2. Sharafeldin MA, Grof G. Experimental investigation of flat plate solar collector using CeO2 nanofluid. Energy Conversion and Management, 155 (2018) 32-41.
• 3. Kutlu C, Li J, Su Y, Wang Y, Pei G, Riffat S. Annual Performance Simulation of a Solar Cogeneration Plant with Sensible Heat Storage to Provide Electricity Demand for a Small Community: A Transient Model. Hittite Journal of Science and Engineering, 6 (2019) 75-81.
• 4. Verma S K, Tiwari AK, Chauhan DS. Experimental evaluation of flat plate solar collector using nanofluid. Energy Conversion and Management 134 (2017) 103-115.
• 5. Verma, SK, Tiwari AK, Chauhan DS. Performance agumentation in flat plate solar collector using MgO/water nanofluid. Energy Conversion and Management 124 (2016) 607-617.
• 6. Sharafeldin MA, Grof G, Mahian O. Experimental study on the performance of a flat plate collector using WO3/Water nano fluids. Energy 141 (2017) 2436-2444.
• 7. Said Z, Saidur R, Sabiha MA, Hepbasli A, Rahim NA. Energy and exergy efficiency of a flat plate solar collector using pH treated Al2O3 nanofluid. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112 (2016) 3915- 3926.
• 8. Said Z, Sajid MH, Alim MA, Saidur R, Rahim NA. Experimental investigation of the thermophysical properties of AL2O3- nanofluid and its effect on a flat plate solar collector. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 48 (2013) 99-107.
• 9. Yousefi T, Farzad V, Ehsan S, Sirus Z. An experimental investigation on the effect of MWCNT-H2O nanofluid on the efficiency of flatplate solar collectors. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 39 (2012) 207-212.
• 10. Sabiha MA, Saidur R, Hassani S, Said Z, Mekhilef S. Energy performance of an evacuated tube solar collector using single walled carbon nanotubes nanofluids. Energy Conversion and Management 105 (2015) 1377-1388.
• 11. Hawwash AA, Abdel Rahman AK, Nada SA, Ookawara S. Numerical Investigation and Experimental Verification of Performance Enhancement of Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Nanofluids. Applied Thermal Engineering 130 (2018) 363-374.
• 12. Said Z, Sabiha MA, Saidur R, Hepbasli A, Rahim NA, Mekhilef S, Ward TA. Performance enhancement of a Flat Plate Solar collector using Titanium dioxide nanofluid and Polyethylene Glycol dispersant. Journal of Cleaner Production 92 (2015) 343-353.
• 13. He Q, Zeng S, Wang S. Experimental investigation on the efficiency of flat-plate solar collectors with nanofluids. Applied Thermal Engineering 88 (2015) 165-171.
• 14. Mahian O, Kianifar A, Sahin AZ, Wongwises S. Performance analysis of a minichannel-based solar collector using different nanofluids. Energy Conversion and Management 88 (2014) 129- 138.
• 15. Bellos E, Tzivanidis C. Performance analysis and optimization of an absorption chiller driven by nano fluid based solar flat plate collector. Journal of Cleaner Production 174 (2018) 256-272.
• 16. Gunjo GD, Manhanta P, Robi PS. CFD and experimental investigation of flat plate solar water heating system under steady state condition. Renewable Energy 106 (2017) 24-36.
• 17. Shojaeizadeh E, Veysi F, Kamandi A. Exergy efficiency investigation and optimization of an Al2O3/water nanofluid based Flat-plate solar collector. Energy and Buildings 101 (2015) 12-23.
• 18. Duffie JA, Beckman WA. Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, fourth ed. Wiley, New Jersey, 2013.
• 19. Gnielinski V. New equations for heat and mass transfer in turbulent pipe and channel flow. International Chemical Engineering 16 (1979) 359-368.
• 20. Xuan Y, Li Q. Investigation on convective heat transfer and flow features of nanofluids. Journal of Heat Transfer 125 (2003) 151.
• 21. Sint N KC, Choudhury IA, Masjuki HH, Aoyama H. Theoretical analysis to determine the efficiency of a CuO-water nanofluid based-flat plate solar collector for domestic solar water heating system in Myanmar. Solar Energy 155 (2017) 608-619.
• 22. Yu W, Choi SUS. The role of interfacial layers in the enhanced thermal conductivity of nanofluids: a renovated Maxwell model. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 5 (2003) 167-171.
• 23. Brinkman HC. The viscosity of concentrated suspensions and solution. The Journal of Chemical Physics 20 (1952) 571.
• 24. Pak BC, Cho YI. Hydrodynamic and heat transfer study of dispersed fluids with submicron metallic oxide particles. Experimental Heat Transfer 11 (1998) 151-170.
• 25. Genc MA, Ezan MA, Turgut A. Thermal performance of a nanofluid-based flat plate solar collector: A transient numerical study. Applied Thermal Engineering, 130 (2018) 395-407.
• 26. Bejan A. Entropy Generation Minimization: the Method of Thermodynamic Optimization of Finite-size Systems and Finitetime Processes, first ed. CRC Press, Florida, 1996.
• 27. White FM. Fluid Mechanics. 7th ed. McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2009.
• 28. Shamshirgaran S, Assadi KM, Al-Kayiem H, Sharma KV. Energetic and Exergetic Performance of a Solar Flat-Plate Collector Working with Cu Nanofluid. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 140 (2018) 031002.
• 29. Goudar CT, Sonnad JR. Comparison of the iterative approximations of the Colebrook-White equation, Hydrocarbon Processing, 87 (2008) 79-83.
• 30. Asker M, Turgut O E, Coban MT. A review of non-iterative friction factor correlations for the calculation of pressure drop in pipe. Bitlis Eren University Journal of Science and Technology, 4 (2014) 1-8.
• 31. Photovoltaic Geographical Information System. http://re.jrc. ec.europa.eu/pvgis/apps4/pvest.php (08.07.2018)
• 32. Turkish State Meteorological Service. https://www.mgm.gov.tr/ (08.07.2018)