COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT HONEYCOMB GEOMETRIES FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN FLAT PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT HONEYCOMB GEOMETRIES FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN FLAT PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS
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2009-02
Authors
SANUSI, YINKA SOFIHULLAHI
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Abstract
The performance of different honeycomb geometries have been compared experimentally
in four identical solar water heaters equipped with circular, square and rectangular cell
honeycomb structures while the fourth solar water heater was without honeycomb. The collector
with circular, square and rectangular honeycomb collected 19.32%, 9.78% and3.0% more energy
respectively when compared with collector without honeycomb. The overall analysis gave
average exergetic efficiency of 48.8%, 44.9% and 42.1% for collector with circular, square and
rectangular cell honeycomb respectively while the collector without honeycomb has an average
exergetic efficiency of 40.9%
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M.Sc. THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE
POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
NIGERIA.
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
NIGERIA.
Keywords
COMPARATIVE,, STUDY,, DIFFERENT,, HONEYCOMB,, GEOMETRIES,, SUPPRESSION,, CONVECTIVE,, HEAT,, TRANSFER,, FLAT PLATE,, SOLAR COLLECTORS