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Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater

This project was aimed to study the thermal transfer and effectiveness of graphene as absorber plate in a multi-pass solar air heater with forced convection by solving a partial differential equation through implicit technique with the usage of Partial Differential Equation Toolbox of MATLAB softwar...

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Main Author: Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/19286/1/FYP%20Dissertation_19888.pdf
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.192862019-06-11T10:28:31Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/19286/ Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah This project was aimed to study the thermal transfer and effectiveness of graphene as absorber plate in a multi-pass solar air heater with forced convection by solving a partial differential equation through implicit technique with the usage of Partial Differential Equation Toolbox of MATLAB software. The heat transfer relationship between all parts of the multi-pass solar air heater were considered for an energy balance equation. Transient analysis are conducted using recorded solar irradiance for 36000 seconds in the Solar Research Site, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. The results were analysed and compared with existing studies on solar air heater to show an efficiency of 0.69 and highest temperature of 425K. However, an experimental studies are required to validate the result of the mathematical modelling. 2018-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/19286/1/FYP%20Dissertation_19888.pdf Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah (2018) Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater. UNSPECIFIED.
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description This project was aimed to study the thermal transfer and effectiveness of graphene as absorber plate in a multi-pass solar air heater with forced convection by solving a partial differential equation through implicit technique with the usage of Partial Differential Equation Toolbox of MATLAB software. The heat transfer relationship between all parts of the multi-pass solar air heater were considered for an energy balance equation. Transient analysis are conducted using recorded solar irradiance for 36000 seconds in the Solar Research Site, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. The results were analysed and compared with existing studies on solar air heater to show an efficiency of 0.69 and highest temperature of 425K. However, an experimental studies are required to validate the result of the mathematical modelling.
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author Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah
spellingShingle Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah
Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
author_facet Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah
author_sort Ahmad Zaini, Nur Hamizah
title Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
title_short Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
title_full Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
title_fullStr Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
title_full_unstemmed Transient Analysis of Force Convective Solar Air Heater
title_sort transient analysis of force convective solar air heater
publishDate 2018
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/19286/1/FYP%20Dissertation_19888.pdf
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