Performance Investigation of High Temperature Application of Molten Solar Salt Nanofluid in a Direct Absorption Solar Collector
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Article Title | Performance Investigation of High Temperature Application of Molten Solar Salt Nanofluid in a Direct Absorption Solar Collector |
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ERA Journal ID | 22271 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Karim, M. A., Arthur, Owen, Yarlagadda, Prasad K. D. V., Islam, Majedul and Mahiuddin, Md |
Journal Title | Molecules |
Journal Citation | 24 (2) |
Number of Pages | 27 |
Year | 02 Jan 2019 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISSN | 1420-3049 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24020285 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/2/285 |
Abstract | Nanofluids have great potential in a wide range of fields including solar thermal applications, where molten salt nanofluids have shown great potential as a heat transfer fluid (HTF) for use in high temperature solar applications. However, no study has investigated the use of molten salt nanofluids as the HTF in direct absorption solar collector systems (DAC). In this study, a two dimensional CFD model of a direct absorption high temperature molten salt nanofluid concentrating solar receiver has been developed to investigate the effects design and operating variables on receiver performance. It has been found that the Carnot efficiency increases with increasing receiver length, solar concentration, increasing height and decreasing inlet velocity. When coupled to a power generation cycle, it is predicted that total system efficiency can exceed 40% when solar concentrations are greater than 100×. To impart more emphasis on the temperature rise of the receiver, an adjusted Carnot efficiency has been used in conjunction with the upper temperature limit of the nanofluid. The adjusted total efficiency also resulted in a peak efficiency for solar concentration, which decreased with decreasing volume fraction, implying that each receiver configuration has an optimal solar concentration. |
Keywords | nanofluids; direct absorption solar collector; heat and mass transfer; computational fluid dynamics; molten salts |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 4012. Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering |
Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh | |
Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/yy7z3/performance-investigation-of-high-temperature-application-of-molten-solar-salt-nanofluid-in-a-direct-absorption-solar-collector
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