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creators_name: Yunus, Y.M.
creators_name: Al-Kayiem, H.H.
title: Simulation of hybrid solar dryer
ispublished: pub
keywords: Solar dryers, CFD simulations; Flow distribution; FLUENT software; Grid generation; High temperature; Hybrid solar dryers; Low velocities; Operational modes, Computational fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; conference proceeding; flow field; numerical model; performance assessment; software; solar power
note: cited By 7; Conference of 26th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems ; Conference Date: 19 August 2012 Through 23 August 2012; Conference Code:95632
abstract: The efficient performance of a solar dryer is mainly depending on the good distribution of the thermal and flow field inside the dryer body. This paper presents simulation results of a solar dryer with a biomass burner as backup heater. The flow and thermal fields were simulated by CFD tools under different operational modes. GAMBIT software was used for the model and grid generation while FLUENT software was used to simulate the velocity and temperature distribution inside the dryer body. The CFD simulation procedure was validated by comparing the simulation results with experimental measurement. The simulation results show acceptable agreement with the experimental measurements. The simulations have shown high temperature spot with very low velocity underneath the solar absorber and this is an indication for the poor design. Many other observations have been visualized from the temperature and flow distribution which cannot be captured by experimental measurements. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
date: 2013
publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84881111007&doi=10.1088%2f1755-1315%2f16%2f1%2f012143&partnerID=40&md5=c85ed5c294f8630d202bc4af9dfd4b4a
id_number: 10.1088/1755-1315/16/1/012143
full_text_status: none
publication: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
volume: 16
number: 1
place_of_pub: Beijing
refereed: TRUE
issn: 17551307
citation:   Yunus, Y.M. and Al-Kayiem, H.H.  (2013) Simulation of hybrid solar dryer.  In: UNSPECIFIED.