Performance of the Flat Plate Solar Collector Operated with Water-Al₂O₃ Nanofluid

Abstract:

Solar collectors is one of the technologies absorbing energy from solar beam and utilizing it for heating purposes, displacing the need to burn fossil fuels. There are many ways to improve effectiveness of the solar collectors [1,2]. Recent method to absorb more heat from the solar beam is to modify thermal characteristics of the working fluid. For this purpose one can use nanofluids, i.e. suspensions of metallic or nonmetallic nanoparticles in a base fluid [3].

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 831)
• Pages: 181-187
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.831.181
• Online since: April 2016
• Authors: Janusz T. Cieśliński*, Bartosz Dawidowicz, Aleksandra Popakul
• Keywords: Flat Plate Solar Collector, Nanofluid, Thermal Efficiency

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