Scrutiny of Solar Water Heating System Employing Supercritical Fluid

Salem Algarni, Vineet Tirth, Talal Alqahtani, Pravin R. Kshirsagar, Baru Debtera and Vijay Kumar

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-9

Abstract: This paper proposes a solar collector that utilizes supercritical CO2 as the working fluid to detect implicit water heating and boost the collector’s heating rate efficiency. Solar water heating system efficiency, cost, and environmental friendliness all depend on the working fluid used. CO2 is a possible natural refrigerant replacement. Even a little increase in temperature or pressure may have a big impact on the density of CO2 at the critical point. Because of this, solar heating can readily generate a spontaneous convection flow of supercritical carbon dioxide. The most basic collector characteristics, such as CO2 pressure and temperature, were determined by building and testing an experimental setup using a CO2-based solar collector. Due to solar radiation, liquid, gas, or supercritical CO2 pressures and temperatures change throughout the test. There was a 50% time average collector efficiency (ηcol) and a 30% heat recovery efficiency (ηRE). Solar thermal collectors based on supercritical CO2 have now been shown in this paper. Since the results show that even though the solar energy is low, the CO2 temperature, pressure, and supercritical stress remain constant, this is distinct from conventional liquid-based solar collectors.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/6752289

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