Research Article

Experimental Investigation on Incorporation of Zinc-Ferrite Nanocoated Baffles for Improving the Performance of Field Power Electrical Transformer Integrated with a Solar Air Heater

Table 2

Performance comparison with other configurations of SAH.

ConfigurationThermal efficiency (%)Thermo hydraulic efficiencyExergy efficiency (%)Author

Finned baffle solar air heater51.6450.25%4.3Mohammadi and Sabzpooshani [36]
Baffled solar air heater-sequential array26.78—10.71Ghiami and Ghiami [37]
Baffled solar air heater-staggered array22.29—13.41Ghiami and Ghiami [37]
Zinc-ferrite nanocoated baffles in SAH66.0264.49%14.48Present work