Investigation of the heat transfer behaviour of a polymer solar collector for different manifold configurations

D. Missirlis, G. Martinopoulos, G. Tsilingiridis, K. Yakinthos and N. Kyriakis

Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 68, issue C, 715-723

Abstract: In order to further promote the utilization of solar thermal systems, solar collectors need to become more efficient and cost effective. This can be accomplished by a variety of methods, either by using lower cost materials, or/and by increasing their thermal efficiency by novel design. The current work presents such an effort dealing with the investigation of the heat transfer behaviour of a novel polymer solar collector for different manifold configurations with computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Keywords: Solar energy; Flat plate collectors; CFD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.03.008

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