Abstract
In the recent scenario, the solar energy play a vital role for domestic usages since it is being one of the renewable forms of energy. The spiral solar thermal collector is used to harvest the solar energy. In the present work, the spiral solar thermal collector with specified dimensions was fabricated and the readings were taken. A Rule Based Mamdani Type Fuzzy (RBMTF) model was developed to predict the output temperature of the spiral solar thermal collector, using the mass flow rate of water, time as input parameters and outlet temperature as an output parameter with an aid of MATLAB fuzzy logic toolbox. The rate of flow is varied between 0.014 and 0.0755 for the time range of 600 minutes to 960 minutes. Six phonological variables were considered for each combination and the R2 value for the testing data were about 96.9%. The predicted results were found to be in concurrence with the experimental results which confirm reliability of the proposed RBMTF model.
Highlights
Increase in electricity consumption is one of the major challenges faced by the researchers in the development of a new system and in the up gradation of an existing systems.The electrical energy is obtained from various sources wherein the solar radiation is one among them
The objective of the present work is to develop the RBMTFmodel to predict the thermal performance of the solar thermal collector
For this stated objective various research articles were reviewed and the spiral shaped thermal collector was chosen for further analysis
Summary
Increase in electricity consumption is one of the major challenges faced by the researchers in the development of a new system and in the up gradation of an existing systems.The electrical energy is obtained from various sources wherein the solar radiation is one among them. There are various instruments available to harvest solar power. A solar thermal collector is an opt solution to harvest solar power. Various studies are being carried out in the performance improvement of solar collector. One of the way to get improved performanceof solar collector is to change the shape of the collector. In the present work a spiral solar collector is chosen and a novel method using fuzzy logic is utilised to predict the output temperature of solar collector,since this tool has turned into one of the most favourable choice to deal with the prediction analysis of system performance
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