Thermal and heat storage performance evaluation of a parabolic trough solar thermal collector featuring phase change material composite and hybrid nanofluid

Thirugnanasambandham, T.; Varun Upadhyay, Viyat; Anantha Lakshmi, V; Bansal, Shubhansh; Saravanan, A.; Garg, Prateek; Panneerselvam, Ponmurugan; Maranan, Ramya; Sathiyamurthy, S

doi:10.1115/1.4071819

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Thermal and heat storage performance evaluation of a parabolic trough solar thermal collector featuring phase change material composite and hybrid nanofluid

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T. Thirugnanasambandham

Viyat Varun Upadhyay

V Anantha Lakshmi

Abstract

Abstract The solar thermal system configured with phase change materials (PCM) won better thermal efficiency and reduced fossil fuel use. However, variations in solar radiation cause reduced thermal performance and lead to poor heat transfer efficiency behaviour. Current research intends to study th...

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