Simulation research on solar air collector

Author

Qiu, Lin ; Huang, Li ; Zou, Yue ; Ren, Geng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Environ. & Energy Eng., Beijing Univ. of Civil Eng. & Archit., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1270

Lastpage

1273

Abstract

In this paper numerical simulated the thermal properties of solar air collector. With the ray-tracing solar load model provided by Fluent software, the solar radiation heat flux can be solve using radiation heat transfer equation, and then consider loading radiation heat into the source terms of the energy equation. The thermal effects rules of air flow and heat transfer in the collector box, temperature fields as well as the wind speed and solar radiation and other related factors under the different conditions have been discussed and analyzed.

Keywords

heat transfer; numerical analysis; ray tracing; solar absorber-convertors; sunlight; thermal properties; Fluent software; air flow; collector box; energy equation; numerical simulation; radiation heat transfer equation; ray-tracing solar load model; solar air collector; solar radiation heat flux; temperature fields; thermal property; wind speed; Civil engineering; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Equations; Heat transfer; Mathematical model; Solar heating; air collector; numerical simulation; solar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6057977

Filename

6057977