Kalidasan B

Srinivas T.

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Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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Energy Procedia

Solar Energy

An experimental investigation of a natural circulation heat pipe system applied to a parabolic trough solar collector steam generation system

A new trough solar concentrator and its performance analysis

Building and Environment

Thermal performance analysis of the glass evacuated tube solar collector with U-tube

In this paper, 3-D numerical analysis of the porous disc line receiver for solar parabolic trough collector is presented. The influence of thermic fluid properties, receiver design and solar radiation concentration on overall heat collection is investigated. The analysis is carried out based on renormalization-group (RNG) k-ε turbulent model by using Therminol-VP1 as working fluid. The thermal analysis of the receiver is carried out for various geometrical parameters such as angle (θ), orientation, height of the disc (H) and distance between the discs (w) and for different heat flux conditions. The receiver showed better heat transfer characteristics; the top porous disc configuration having w = di, H = 0.5di and θ = 30°. The heat transfer characteristic enhances about 64.3% in terms of Nusselt number with a pressure drop of 457 Pa against the tubular receiver. The use of porous medium in tubular solar receiver enhances the system performance significantly. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Applied Energy

Thermal analysis of solar parabolic trough with porous disc receiver

Renewable Energy

Optimisation of metal sputtered and electroplated substrates for solar selective coatings

Absorber Tube with Internal Hinged Blades for Solar Parabolic Trough Collector

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Publisher	Data powered by TypesetElsevier BV
ISSN	1876-6102
Open Access	Yes