April 2011

Thermal analysis of evacuated solar tube collectors

  A detailed design of the evacuated tube collectors is enumerated followed by the thermal network analysis of this collector. The temperature of each component is determined empirically. Numerical analysis is applied to find the coefficient of heat transfer across the air gap from absorber plate to the copper tubes. The performance characteristics of these collectors are analyzed and compared with commercially...

Author(s): Siddharth Arora, Shobhit Chitkara, R. Udayakumar and Muhammad Ali

April 2011

Application of genetic algorithm to hydrocarbon resource estimation

  Resource estimation is a process by which the economically recoverable hydrocarbons (HC) in place within a reservoir are calculated. The parameter that goes into resource estimation is variable and contains some aspect of risks. Resource can be defined as the total volume of hydrocarbon in place, which is further classified as reserve when proved commercially viable. Reserve estimation can be carried out...

Author(s): Hiren K. Patel, Anirbid Sircar, Soham Sheth and Reshmi Jadvani