Trombe Wall System for Poultry Brooding

Numerical investigation of the heating performance of normal and new designed Trombe wall

“…González [1], Okonkwo and Akubuo [2] and Chan et al [3] studied the heating performance of the Trombe wall in residential buildings. They found that a 20 cm thick concrete wall provides suitable indoor heating conditions (25 °C).…”

“…In the previous studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] the width of Trombe wall was equal to the room width which occupied the whole of the south room wall. Jaber and Ajib [17] studied numerically the optimal width of the Trombe wall system in the Mediterranean region.…”

Experimental study of the heating performance of a Trombe wall with a new design

“…The Concrete Trombe wall thickness is considered to be 20 cm (Fernández-González, 2007;Okonkwo and Akubuo, 2007;Chan et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2006;Khalifa and Abbas, 2009), the Trombe wall width is 1 m (Jaber and Ajib, 2011), and the Channel width and the dimensions of upper and lower vents of Trombe wall are 30 cm and 30 Â 50 cm 2 respectively (Gan, 1998;Khedari et al, 1999;Nayak, 1987;Rabani, 2011;Rabani et al, 2013). …”

“…Trombe walls have various types and applications including water Trombe wall and solar transwall (Saadatian et al, 2012;Nayak, 1987), solar hybrid wall (Saadatian et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2014), classic Trombe wall (Saadatian et al, 2012;Rabani et al, 2013;Okonkwo and Akubuo, 2007;Chen et al, 2006;Briga-Sa et al, 2014;Soussi et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013), zigzag Trombe wall, Trombe wall with phase-change material, composite Trombe wall, fluidised Trombe wall (Saadatian et al, 2012), and PV Trombe wall (Saadatian et al, 2012;Chel et al, 2008). In this study classic Trombe wall with an innovative design has been investigated.…”

“…The results showed that the buildings with Trombe walls saved the annual final energy around 20% during heating. Fernández-González (2007), Okonkwo and Akubuo (2007) and Chan et al (2010) studied the heating performance of the Trombe wall in residential buildings. They found that a 20 cm thickness of concrete wall provides suitable indoor heating conditions.…”