Affiliation:
1. THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology Uttarakhand Technical University Tehri Garhwal Uttarakhand India
2. Institute of Technology Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Gödöllő Hungary
Abstract
AbstractThe paper focuses on energy modelling that involves a concatenated structure of a linear time‐invariant system. A block‐structured (BS) technique was adopted for a nonlinear system identification. Using the superimposition principle, the model mapped the thermodynamic state variables as an indirect function of time to the output function. The available energy and degradation of solar radiation are determined through a black box model. For testing and validation purposes, a solar collector with recirculating air was considered. The basic principle is to establish a relation between state variables and the performance parameters, without invoking the conventional thermodynamic relationship between them. The output of the model was compared with the validation data to ensure whether or not there was any affinity between them. The sigmoidal, wavenet, and polynomial forms of nonlinearity provided a good fit to the experimental dataset. The mean absolute percentage error encountered while estimating the collector efficiency was noticed to vary from −4.85 × 10−03% to 1.22 × 10−03%. Similarly, it falls in the domain of −4.73 × 10−04% to 7.78 × 10−02% for the second law efficiency. The maximum heat loss rate (BS model) obtained across the first and second passages of the solar air collector was 235.41 and 218.19 W at the air mass flow rate of 8.10 g/s, which is congruent to the validation dataset.
Subject
General Energy,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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