Solar air heater is the cheapest and extensively used solar energy collection device for drying of agricultural products, space heating, seasoning of timber and curing of industrial products. The use of an artificial roughness on a surface is an effective technique to enhance the rate of heat...

In this paper, the effects of inlet temperature and rib height on the fluid flow and heat transfer performances of the ribbed channel inside the high temperature heat exchanger are presented. The inlet temperature varies from 850K to 1250K and the ratio of rib height to channel height varies...

This paper presents a non-tubular heat exchanger for use in a Stirling solar engine micro co-generation unit that is being developed by the University of Oviedo and the technological research centre Tekniker Foundation. The engine has been designed using scaling criteria, which imply a case of...

This study evaluates the thermal hydraulic performance of a novel liquid–vapor separation condenser (LSC). A series of experiments was performed to investigate the in-tube heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop of the LSC with varying average refrigerant quality at constant mass flux. The...

Researches on the nanofluids have been increased very rapidly over the past decade. In spite of some inconsistency in the reported results and insufficient understanding of the mechanism of the heat transfer in nanofluids, it has been emerged as a promising heat transfer fluid. In the...