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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The problem
of high electrical energy consumption in HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning system), makes renewable energy a solution to the problem.
Renewable energy sources such as solar, geothermal, and wind energy are used in
reducing electrical energy consumption, which is functioned to warm the room
(space heating), drying agricultural products, melting snow-filled roads,
heating agricultural land (soil heating), greenhouse heating, and hot springs.
heat exchanger is a heat conducting device that can transfer energy from a fluid
with a hot temperature to a cold temperature fluid or vice versa which can be
used in the application of drying products produced by farmers, plantations,
and large or small scale fisheries. Due to the function of the heat exchanger
as a room heater, an effectiveness performance test was carried out on the air
heater heat exchanger research carried out at the Thermofluid Lab, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Diponegoro University. In this test, several
variations of water flow rate and air speed were carried out. There are
variations of water flow discharge of 5 liters/minute, 2.5 liters/minute, and 0
liters. In the variation of air velocity there are speeds of 3.6 m/s, 2.7 m/s,
and 1.8 m/s. The analysis obtained in the study is that the greatest effectiveness
value occurs in the variation of water flow discharge of 2.5 liters/minute with
an air speed of 1.8 m/s with a maximum effectiveness value of 0.622 and a
minimum of 0.521.
Country : Indonesia
IRJIET, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2025 pp. 156-160