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Energy is a critical input in the national development process. In fact, it is the basic requirement for human life, agriculture, industry, transportation, communication and many other economic activities of the present civilization. In the present day, the depleting fossil fuels in the various countries, the terms of energy crises underlines the need of paying serious attention to the effective /efficient utilization of existing conventional and non conventional energy sources in terms of energy conservation through effective management for maximum agricultural production. In this paper, experimental studies on solar air/water heating cum storage systems using low cost plastic films have been carried out and periodic thermal model has been proposed. Explicit expressions have been obtained for air and absorber temperatures. The utility of the thermal model was established by conducting experiments on various systems for several days. Closed agreement between theoretical and experimental results validates the proposed methodology.

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Plastic Technology Flow Through The Porous Medium, Solar Air Heaters Thermal Energy Storage Systems

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