Study of a passive solar air heater using palm oil and paraffin as storage media

This study evaluated a passive solar air heater using different storage media. The heater, which is very useful in low temperature applications like agricultural produce drying and heating of buildings, is made up of a double-glaze solar thermal collector of a flat plate type coupled with thermal st...

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Main Authors: O. Ojike, W.I. Okonkwo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X19300565