Effects of hybrid nanofluids and turbulator on efficiency improvement of parabolic trough solar collectors

• Published in: Engineering analysis with boundary elements Vol. 148; pp. 114 - 125
• Main Authors: Esmaeili, Zeinab, Akbarzadeh, Sanaz, Rashidi, Saman, Valipour, Mohammad Sadegh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Conical helical gear rings; Entropy generation; Heat transfer; Nanofluids; Parabolic trough collector; Solar Collectors; Turbulators; Nanofluids; Entropy generation; Conical helical gear rings; Solar Collectors; Turbulators; Parabolic trough collector; Heat transfer

•The exergy and thermal analysis of a parabolic trough collector using conical helical gear rings with Al2O3Cu/water hybrid nanofluid are numerically investigated.•The effect of Reynolds number on the variation of the Nusselt number and the pressure drop is considered.•The use of turbulator and hybr...