Recycle Effect on Device Performance of Wire Mesh Packed Double-Pass Solar Air Heaters

Author： Ho Chii-Dong Lin Chun-Sheng Yang Tz-Jin Chao Chun-Chieh

Publisher： MDPI

E-ISSN： 1996-1073|7|11|7568-7585

ISSN： 1996-1073

Source： Energies, Vol.7, Iss.11, 2014-11, pp. : 7568-7585

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Abstract

A new device for inserting an absorber plate to divide a flat-plate channel into two subchannels to conduct double-pass wire mesh packed operations was developed. The proposed wire mesh packed device improves the heat transfer efficiency substantially as compared that to flat-plate single-pass and double-pass operations using the same working dimensions, and the improvement of device performance was investigated experimentally and theoretically. Good agreement between the theoretical prediction and the measured values from the experimental results was achieved. Considerable heat transfer improvement was obtained employing wire mesh packed double-pass operations under the absorber plate with external recycle. The influences of recycle ratio on the heat transfer efficiency and the power consumption increase were also discussed.