Energy is the key factor for the growth of any country. Per capita energy consumption is the significance of the progress of any nation. With the increasing environmental impacts, word community is searching the way to shift towards sustainable energy sources. Recently the penetration of...

Two relatively simple, single-particle coal combustion models are developed and used to predict the extent of heterogeneous combustion during rapid devolatilization. The first model uses the flame sheet approximation while the second employs finite gas-phase reaction rates. Both models predict...

Energy is the key factor for the growth of any country. Per capita energy consumption is the significance of the progress of any nation. With the increasing environmental impacts, word community is searching the way to shift towards sustainable energy sources. Recently the penetration of...

Analytical expressions for the electrical efficiencies (ηm) of building integrated opaque photovoltaic thermal (BIOPVT) systems based on thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules have been derived. The expressions are valid for different climatic conditions and different design parameters of the...

A review of recent research that has been undertaken on the design and development of various solar distillation systems is reported. A techno-economic analysis is carried out to measure the cost of effectiveness of various distillation systems.

Thermal modelling, based on heat and mass transfer relations, of a greenhouse integrated with a solar still has been discussed in detail. The effect of the system (viz. heat capacity of plants/pot mixture, water mass, and orientation, etc.) as well as climatic parameters (solar insolation,...

We have studied an active solar distillation system during peak summer days. The system is made of fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) and is coupled to a flat-plate collector (FPC). Performance of single and double-effect solar distillation, with and without water-flow over the glass cover, was...

We present an analysis of an indoor swimming-pool with solar collector panels. An analytical expression is derived for the system efficiency in terms of heat-exchanger and collector designs and climatic parameters.

We show how the thermal losses within and outside a solar distillation unit vary with water depth in the basin of a passive solar still. The latent heat of vaporisation has been used for distillation under both passive and active modes of operation. The flow rate of the water mass over the glass...

We present an analytical model of a ground collector which uses thermal trap material instead of glazing on its top. The effects of different parameters e.g., the depth of the heat retrieval plane, thickness of the thermal trap material and the use of various materials such as concrete, sand and...