THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A MODIFIED COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATING SOLAR COLLECTOR USING OIL-BASED NANOFLUIDS

• Main Author: AKHTER, JAVED
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/20397/1/Javed%20Akhtar_G03559.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/20397/

Thermal oils, generally used as heat transfer fluids (HTFs) in the medium temperature compound parabolic concentrating (CPC) collectors, bear weak thermal properties that negatively affect their performance thereby creating a major hurdle in the successful application at industrial scale