Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system

The drying of agriculture product consumes a huge fossil fuel rates that demand to find an alternative source of sustainable environmental friendly energy such as solar energy. This work presents the difference between using solar heat source and electrical heater in terms of design aspect. A circul...

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Main Authors: Abdulmalek, S.H., Assadi, M.K., Al-Kayiem, H.H., Gitan, A.A.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2018
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spelling utp-eprints.217002019-01-10T02:55:41Z Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system Abdulmalek, S.H. Assadi, M.K. Al-Kayiem, H.H. Gitan, A.A. The drying of agriculture product consumes a huge fossil fuel rates that demand to find an alternative source of sustainable environmental friendly energy such as solar energy. This work presents the difference between using solar heat source and electrical heater in terms of design aspect. A circular-finned tube bank heat exchanger is considered against an electrical heater used as a heat generator to regenerate silica gel in solar assisted desiccant drying system. The impact of tube diameter on the heat transfer area was investigated for both the heat exchanger and the electrical heater. The fin performance was investigated by determining fin effectiveness and fin efficiency. A mathematical model was developed using MATLAB to describe the forced convection heat transfer between hot water supplied by evacuated solar collector with 70 °C and ambient air flow over heat exchanger finned tubes. The results revealed that the increasing of tube diameter augments the heat transfer area of both heat exchanger and electrical heater. The highest of fin efficiency was around 0.745 and the lowest was around 0.687 while the fin effectiveness was found to be around 0.998. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Institute of Physics Publishing 2018 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044503191&doi=10.1088%2f1757-899X%2f328%2f1%2f012028&partnerID=40&md5=62bbc7b03b6c99204200b3516356fc24 Abdulmalek, S.H. and Assadi, M.K. and Al-Kayiem, H.H. and Gitan, A.A. (2018) Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 328 (1). http://eprints.utp.edu.my/21700/
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description The drying of agriculture product consumes a huge fossil fuel rates that demand to find an alternative source of sustainable environmental friendly energy such as solar energy. This work presents the difference between using solar heat source and electrical heater in terms of design aspect. A circular-finned tube bank heat exchanger is considered against an electrical heater used as a heat generator to regenerate silica gel in solar assisted desiccant drying system. The impact of tube diameter on the heat transfer area was investigated for both the heat exchanger and the electrical heater. The fin performance was investigated by determining fin effectiveness and fin efficiency. A mathematical model was developed using MATLAB to describe the forced convection heat transfer between hot water supplied by evacuated solar collector with 70 °C and ambient air flow over heat exchanger finned tubes. The results revealed that the increasing of tube diameter augments the heat transfer area of both heat exchanger and electrical heater. The highest of fin efficiency was around 0.745 and the lowest was around 0.687 while the fin effectiveness was found to be around 0.998. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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author Abdulmalek, S.H.
Assadi, M.K.
Al-Kayiem, H.H.
Gitan, A.A.
spellingShingle Abdulmalek, S.H.
Assadi, M.K.
Al-Kayiem, H.H.
Gitan, A.A.
Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
author_sort Abdulmalek, S.H.
title Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
title_short Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
title_full Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
title_fullStr Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Tube Diameter on the Design of Heat Exchanger in Solar Drying system
title_sort effect of tube diameter on the design of heat exchanger in solar drying system
publisher Institute of Physics Publishing
publishDate 2018
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