Review on heat pipe based solar collectors: Classifications, performance evaluation and optimization, and effectiveness improvements

Hong Li, Hongyuan Liu and Min Li

Energy, 2022, vol. 244, issue PA

Abstract: Heat pipe based solar collectors (HP–SCs) have emerged as a promising way to improve the performance of solar thermal collectors (STCs) and PV/T collectors, a technology that leads to a proliferation of scientific studies and literature. To date, several review papers have been published summarizing studies relevant to either HP-STCs or HP-PV/T. As the update development of HP-STCs, HP-PV/T technology shows common features from structural design to operation principles. There exist some degrees of inevitable relationships between such two kinds of HP-SCs. Therefore, it is meaningful to conduct a comprehensive overview of studies about these two kinds of HP-SCs. This paper aims to summarize the classification, performance evaluation and optimization, and effective improvements related to both HP-STCs and HP-PV/T collectors. Diverse performance evaluation and optimization methods, and effective improvement measurements for various HP-SCs are presented and discussed. This is followed by conclusive remarks of their application situations, performance analyses and comparison, and effective improvements. Finally, new research directions and potentials in this field are identified and recommended.

Keywords: Heat pipe; Solar collector; Solar thermal; Solar photovoltaic; Solar photovoltaic/thermal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.122582

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