1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Technology, Tamilnadu, India.
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Coimbatore, India.
3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Varuvan Vadivelan Institute of Technology, India.
4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Technology, Tamilnadu, India.
*(Corresponding author)
The main objective of the present work is to improve the collector efficiency of the solar air heater and studying flow and thermal parameter like velocity, pressure temperature distribution. The heat transfer characteristics and performance of the flat plate solar air heater with and without thermal storage were studied experimentally for different heat storage materials such as gravel and iron scrap with different combinations. The mathematical are described experimentally to enrich the performance of solar air heater by maximizing the dryer outlet temperature, the better efficiency of air heater
