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Journal Articles Solar Energy Year : 1998

The evaporative capacity as a performance index for a solar drier air heater

Abstract

This paper presents a new index, called the ‘‘evaporative capacity’’, for rating the performance of the solar air heater in a solar drier consisting of solar air heater and a drying chamber in series. The proposed index complements the widely-used ‘‘collector efficiency’’ as a performance indicator of the solar collector, by taking into account the specific use that is to be made with the heated air. Presented is a detailed method for calculating the evaporative capacity, and a comparison of this new index with the thermal efficiency index, demonstrating its superiority. General charts for a rapid determination of the evaporative capacity arepresented, and some possible applications of these charts are described.

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hal-01963683 , version 1 (21-12-2018)

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Yves Jannot, Yézouma Coulibaly. The evaporative capacity as a performance index for a solar drier air heater. Solar Energy, 1998, 63 (6), pp.387-391. ⟨10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00097-8⟩. ⟨hal-01963683⟩
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