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Experimental analysis of solar water heater with compound parabolic concentrator

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.165513,
        author={Dikshita Nath and Danish Ansar and Biswajit Das and Shikha Bhuyan},
        title={Experimental analysis of solar water heater with compound parabolic concentrator},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web},
        volume={8},
        number={31},
        publisher={EAI},
        journal_a={EW},
        year={2020},
        month={7},
        keywords={Solar Radiation, Solar water heater, Passive system, parabolic collector},
        doi={10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.165513}
    }
    
  • Dikshita Nath
    Danish Ansar
    Biswajit Das
    Shikha Bhuyan
    Year: 2020
    Experimental analysis of solar water heater with compound parabolic concentrator
    EW
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.165513
Dikshita Nath1, Danish Ansar1, Biswajit Das1, Shikha Bhuyan1,*
  • 1: Mechanical Engineering Department, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India-784028
*Contact email: shikha5@tezu.ernet.in

Abstract

Among all the non-conventional energy sources, solar energy is one of the most promising and renewable alternative source. Solar water heater can be one of the medium to make best use of this renewable energy for human betterment. The current work is targeted to examine the performance of solar water heater with different absorber plates viz flat plate, VTrough and compound parabolic concentrator. The developed system is intended to supply hot water for a family at a low cost. This is regional study and illustrates how selecting a proper concentrator can increase the thermal efficiency of this solar based system. It was experimentally found that, the solar water heater with compound parabolic concentrator profile as absorber outshines over other two models giving 20.58% more efficient results than V Trough whereas V Trough gives us 20.37% more efficient results than Flat plate. Also, it is found that, less mass flow rate is required for obtaining higher degree of temperature in case of solar water heater with compound parabolic concentrator.

Keywords
Solar Radiation, Solar water heater, Passive system, parabolic collector
Received
2020-03-27
Accepted
2020-06-29
Published
2020-07-08
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.165513

Copyright © 2020 Dikshita Nath et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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