A case study on thermo-hydraulic performance of jet plate solar air heater using response surface methodology

Mahalingam Murugesan Matheswaran; Thottipalayam Vellingiri Arjunan; Suresh Muthusamy; L. Natrayan; Hitesh Panchal; Shankar Subramaniam; Nitin K. Khedkar; A.S. El-Shafay; Chandrakanat Sonawane

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (Jun 2022)

A case study on thermo-hydraulic performance of jet plate solar air heater using response surface methodology

Mahalingam Murugesan Matheswaran,
Thottipalayam Vellingiri Arjunan,
Suresh Muthusamy,
L. Natrayan,
Hitesh Panchal,
Shankar Subramaniam,
Nitin K. Khedkar,
A.S. El-Shafay,
Chandrakanat Sonawane

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Mahalingam Murugesan Matheswaran: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India; Corresponding author.
Thottipalayam Vellingiri Arjunan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Viswavidyalaya (Central University), Chhattisgarh, India
Suresh Muthusamy: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kongu Engineering College (Autonomous), Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
L. Natrayan: Mechanical Engineering Department, Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS, Chennai, 602105, India
Hitesh Panchal: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government Engineering College, Patan, Gujarat, India
Shankar Subramaniam: Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College (Autonomous), Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
Nitin K. Khedkar: Mechanical Engineering Department, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India; Corresponding author.
A.S. El-Shafay: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, 16273, Saudi Arabia
Chandrakanat Sonawane: Mechanical Engineering Department, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 34
p. 101983

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In this present work, the multi-hole jet impingement approach is used to augment the performance of the jet plate solar air heater by improving the rate of heat transfer coefficient between absorber plate and impinging air. The system's usefulness is analytically analyzed, and the influence of airflow rate, length of the collector, jet diameter, pitch distances at a stream, and span-wise directions on thermo-hydraulic efficiency is investigated by adopting Response Surface Methodology (RSM). A quadratic equation is generated by using the RSM technique, which is used to predict the thermohydraulic efficiency. The results show that the optimized results of the design parameters are at the airflow rate of 0.01386 kg/s, 1.5108 m of length, 0.0046 m of jet diameter with a stream-wise pitch distance of 0.05108 span-wise pitch distance of 0 0.03414 m. The comparison results show that the RSM model evaluated values have a deviation within a range of ±1.78% compared with the analytical values developed by the model.

Published in Case Studies in Thermal Engineering

ISSN: 2214-157X (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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