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This work aimed to improve the performance of solar air heater (SAH) by using evacuated tube solar collectors ETSC integrated with nano-enhancer phase change material (NE-PCM). To achieve this purpose, a system consisting of 5 linked collecting panels was designed, fabricated, and experimentally investigated. Each panel included a glass-evacuated tube with two concentric aluminum pipes installed inside. NE-PCM was placed between the inlet and outlet air paths inside the evacuated tube to enhance the heat transfer rate. The performance was investigated with and without NE-PCM at five mass flow rates (0.006, 0.008, 0.01, 0.03, and 0.05 kg\/s). Experimental results revealed that the highest temperature was 116, 108, 102, 95, and 93 \u00b0C, respectively, for the above mass flow rates without adding NE-PCM. The outlet temperature was decreased by 6\u201315 \u00b0C when using NE-PCM. The SAH efficiency was increased by 29.62% compared to the system without NE-PCM at 0.05 kg\/s. The maximum thermal efficiency for the system with NE-PCM was 62.66% at 0.05 kg\/s, and the pressure drop was 6.79 kPa under the same conditions. As well known, the hot air is used for a variety of purposes including space heating, food processing, drying of fruit, vegetables, dairy, and solar cooking.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11356-022-22462-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,16]],"date-time":"2022-08-16T21:02:21Z","timestamp":1660683741000},"page":"4603-4616","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Experimental study of solar air heater performance with evacuated tubes connected in series and involving nano-copper oxide\/paraffin wax as thermal storage enhancer"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"30","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5508-1632","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amr","family":"Elbrashy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fawzy","family":"Aboutaleb","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Magda","family":"El-Fakharany","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fadl Abdelmonem","family":"Essa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,16]]},"reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"22462_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"579","DOI":"10.1016\/j.aej.2020.02.004","volume":"59","author":"AS Abdullah","year":"2020","unstructured":"Abdullah AS, Amro MI, Younes MM, Omara ZM, Kabeel AE, Essa FA (2020) Experimental investigation of single pass solar air heater with reflectors and turbulators. 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