SAIP2010

Optimisation of two volumetric solar receivers that use oil as a heat transfer fluid

Not scheduled

CSIR Convention Centre

Presentation Track F - Applied and Industrial Physics

Speaker

Dr JUSTICE S.P MLATHO (NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY)

Description

Fluent 6.3 software has been used to optimise the designs of two volumetric receivers. The model results indicate that the use of a wire mesh in these receivers does improve their performance. A wire mesh of porosity  0.95 has also been found to be sufficient to improve the efficiency