ADHIYAMAAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HOSUR.

(AUTONOMOUS)
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING,
AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SOLAR AIR HEATER WITH
V-SHAPED DUCT
Presented by
A.JAGADEESH(2601132ME113)
M.MOHAN BABU(2601132ME122)
V.SABARISH(2601132ME130)
J.INFANT JERALD(AC11UME055)
Under the Guidance of
Mr. NAVEEN KUMAR NAGALLI
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

INTRODUCTION
The solar energy is utilised in many countries for several applications it
is one of the best way to save our earth from pollution. The sun
produces vast amount of renewable solar energy that can be collected
and converted into heat and electricity.
Solar air heating is the process of conversion of solar radiation into
thermal heat, these thermal heat can be utilized for several domestic and
industrial purposes .
Solar heaters has different types of ducts

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OBJECTIVE

To analyse the performance of solar air heater setup by using a v- shaped duct.
To analyse the performance of v-shaped duct in the forms of without coating,
with single side coating and double side coating.
To analyse the time taken to dry the different commodities in thermal energy
storage system.
To compare the efficiency of v-shaped duct with the different ducts.

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LITERATURE SURVEY
1. Abhishek Saxena et al. has been designed the solar air heater with the long
term heat storage. Granular carbon has introduces as a long term heat absorbing
media inside solar heater. Halogen tube (300W) inside and outlet ducts has been
used because of using halogen lights the system is feasible to perform in night or
bad climatic conditions. The results found that the thermal performance in night or
bad climatic conditions. The test results found that the thermal performance of the
all new configurations was found better in comparison of conventional solar air
heater on the both natural and forced convection.
2. Afjual Ansari et al. has a conducted a comparative experimental investigation
of thermal performances of the different solar air heaters conducted and compared
three different types of solar air heaters ,
1.simple single pass
2.simple double pass
3.double pass having aluminum cans
Investigated using in type3 aluminum beverage cans were attached to absorber
plate, in order to provide better heat transfer surface, max. thermal efficiency has
achieved at air flow rate 3.25m/s.
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3. V.V Tyagi et al. has investigated with three different arrangements viz.,
1. without pcm,
2. with pcm and
3.with hytherm oil.
To study the comparative performance. Concluded the performance of evacuated
tube collector(ETC) based solar air heater with and without TES and found that the
output temperature in case with TES is higher than that of without TES, the outlet
temperature with paraffin wax is slighter greater than that of hytherm oil.12 Nos
of ETC tubes -4 filled withDESIGN
hytherm
oil and OFremaining
4 without TES have been
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DUCT
arranged in the series.

5. Saravanakumar et al. has presented the thermal performance of a SAH

with and without TES. A forced convention solar collector integrated with
different sensible heat storage was developed and tested for its thermal
performance. Gravel with iron scraps improved 20% thermal efficiency in
comparison
of
other
storage
materials.
6. Krishnanath et al. has fabricated a double pass SAH integrated with TES
(paraffin wax and with Al capsules). The solar heater integrated with thermal
storage delivered comparatively high temperature. The efficiency of the air
heaters integrated with TES was higher than the air heaters without TES .

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REFERENCES
1.Abhishek Saxena ,Nithin Agarwal, Ghansyhsam Srivastava. Design and
performance of a solar air heater with long term heat storage. International Journal
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of Heat and Mass TransferDESIGN
60 (2013)
8-16. OF SOLAR AIR HEATER
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2.Afsaul Ansari, MD.Alamgir, Hari kumar singh. A Comparative Experimental

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