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In this paper a mathematical model has been developed to study the thermal efficiency of a water-air hybrid solar collector (HSC). The model, implemented in MATLAB, was used to evaluate the collector in the real operation conditions of Timisoara, Romania. The effect of solar irradiation, ambient temperature and air inlet temperature on the useful energy collected by air and water has been investigated. Absorber plate temperature variation, water and air outlet temperatures, collector efficiency and air flow rate effects are presented. Moreover, the efficiency of the collector for three different configurations of the air channel is computed and compared: triangular fins, rectangular fins and without fins. The simulation results show that the configuration with triangular fins has better performance compared with the others.
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The authors thank Dr Marius Paulescu (West University of Timisoara) for providing meteorological data.
Author (Qhtan A. Abed) thank the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq.
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Adnan Abed, Q., Badescu, V., Soriga, I. (2014). Evaluation of Various Hybrid Solar Collector Configurations for Water and Air Heating. In: Visa, I. (eds) Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment - Steps Towards nZEB. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09707-7_24
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