Research Article

Design, Development, and Performance Evaluation of Solar Heating System for Disinfection of Domestic Roof-Harvested Rainwater

Table 1

List of meteorological instruments used in this study.

ParameterDevice and modelManufacturerAccuracyNumber

Wind speedCup anemometer A101ML/A100L2Vector InstrumentsDistance const. 2.3 m10

Wind directionWind vane W200PVector InstrumentsDistance const. 2.3 m2

Air temperature (wet and dry bulb)Frankenberger psychrometerTheodor Friedrichs ±0.05°C5

Surface temperatureInfrared pyrometer KT1582DHeitronics±0.05°C1

Global radiationPyranometer SP-LITEKipp & Zonen80 µN/Wm21

Net radiationNet radiometer (REBS) Q7, NR-LITECampbell/Kip & Zonen+9.6 (−11.9) N/Wm2/13.9 N/Wm22

Source: NIMEX Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.