Citation
Abstract
This article presents briefly the potential use of porous construction to achieve efficient heat removal from a power producing solid and its new application to solar air heaters. Analytical solutions are given for the temperature distribution within a gas-cooled porous flat plate having its surface exposed to the sun’s energy. The extracted thermal energy is calculated for two different types of plate transparency. The results of the analysis show the great improvement in performance obtained with porous flat plate collectors as compared with analogous nonporous types.
Details
- Volume
- 42-34
- Published
- August 15, 1976
- Pages
- 90–99
- File Size
- 779.1 KB