Investigation of Hydraulic-Thermal Performance, Energy, and Exergy Efficiency in Parabolic Solar Collector Equipped with Vortex Generator Containing Two-phase Hybrid Nanofluid

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1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

2 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Abstract

The sun is a renewable resource that helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions and reduces the impact of industries on nature pollution. In the present study, the effects of using the vortex generator in different geometrical states in the absorber tube of the parabolic solar collector were investigated using the numerical method and with the help of the finite volume method. Vortex generators were modeled with four geometric states, Case A, Case B, Case C, and Case D, and their effect on different parameters in the output of parabolic solar collector was investigated. According to the results, using the vortex generator increased the heat transfer coefficient and the thermal efficiency of the parabolic solar collector. The maximum increase in thermal performance increased by 65.03% compared to when the parabolic solar czollector was a simple.

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