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Theoretical analysis and experimental verification of parabolic trough solar collector with hot water generation system

Author(s) -

A. Valan Arasu,

T. Sornakumar

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

thermal science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 2334-7163

pISSN - 0354-9836

DOI - 10.2298/tsci0701119v

Subject(s) - parabolic trough , trough (economics) , environmental science , storage tank , significant difference , meteorology , constant (computer programming) , mechanics , nuclear engineering , computer science , thermodynamics , physics , mathematics , engineering , thermal , statistics , economics , macroeconomics , programming language

The modeling of a parabolic trough collector with hot water generation system with a well-mixed type storage tank using a computer simulation program is presented in this paper. This is followed by an experimental verification of the model and an analysis of the experimental results. The maximum difference between the predicted and the actual storage tank water temperature values is found as 9.59% only. This variation is due to the difference between the actual weather during the test period compared to hourly values and the convection losses from the collector receiver, which were not constant as accounted by the computer simulation program.

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