Performance analysis of a solar glass tube collector

Renyuan Zhang, Huanlian Zhu, Hanbing Wen and Meicun Li

Renewable Energy, 1993, vol. 3, issue 8, 877-883

Abstract: The thermal performance and thermal processes of a glass tube collector have been analysed in this paper. Its thermal performance can be improved by changing the thermal processes to take advantage of the glass tube's ability to transmit sunlight; that makes it possible for the working fluid to directly absorb part of solar radiation. Its thermal performance is even better in most parts of the working region than that of a steel tube collector, even when the structure, meteorological conditions and thermodynamic properties of the working fluid are exactly the same.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(93)90045-I

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