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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 136, 2019
2019 International Conference on Building Energy Conservation, Thermal Safety and Environmental Pollution Control (ICBTE 2019)
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| Article Number | 05014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Monitoring and Control of Air Pollution | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201913605014 | |
| Published online | 10 December 2019 | |
Numerical Investigation of a two-inlet PVT air collector
1 School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, PR China
2 Metrology Center of Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Henan Electric Power Company, Zhengzhou 450051, Henan, China
* Corresponding author: kangzhangyang@ncwu.edu.cn
A numerical study of heat and mass transfer characteristics of a two-inlet PV/T air collector is performed. The influence of thermal characteristics and efficiency is investigated as the area ratios of inlet and outlet of the single channel with two inlets are changed. The design of the two-inlet PV/T air collector can avoid the poor heat transfer conditions of the single inlet PV/T air collector and improve the total photo-thermal efficiency. When the inlet/outlet cross-sectional area ratio is reduced, the inlet air from the second inlet enhances the convection heat transfer in the second duct and the temperature distribution is more uniform. As the cross-sectional area of the second inlet increase, the maximum heat exchange amount of the two-inlet PV/T air collector occurs between the inlet and outlet cross-sectional area ratio L=0.645 and L=0.562.
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