Energy and exergy analyses of flat plate solar collectors with nanofluids containing different size and shape of nanoparticles

Mohammed Ayaz Uddin; Ahmet Z. Sahin; Bekir Sami Yilbas; Abdullah Al-Sharafi

doi:10.1504/IJEX.2021.113843

Energy and exergy analyses of flat plate solar collectors with nanofluids containing different size and shape of nanoparticles

Mohammed Ayaz Uddin, Ahmet Z. Sahin^*, Bekir Sami Yilbas, Abdullah Al-Sharafi

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The effect of nanoparticle size, shape, and volume concentration upon the flat plate solar collector (FPSC) performance is investigated. The enhancement in efficiency due to volume concentration SiO2/H2O nanofluid was significant whereas the enhancement due to size and shape was marginal. In addition, the paper discusses the effect of the concentration, size and shape of nanoparticles upon the pressure drop, pumping power, exergy destruction and entropy generation. The exergy efficiency is found to increase upon increasing the nanoparticle size and volume concentration. However, the effect due to shape variation on the exergy efficiency is minimal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	282-300
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of Exergy
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEX.2021.113843
State	Published - 2021

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Keywords

Collector efficiency
Entropy generation
Exergy destructed
Exergy efficiency
FPSC
Flat plate solar collector
Nanofluid
Nanoparticle shape
Nanoparticle size
Pressure drop
Pumping power
Thermophysical properties

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