Experimental study of the performance of a solar collector cooled by heat pipes

M. Hammad

Renewable Energy, 1995, vol. 6, issue 1, 11-15

Abstract: This paper describes the performance of a flat-plate solar collector cooled by a set of heat pipes designed and manufactured locally to work at low-temperature conditions equal to that of the flat plate solar collectors. Efficiencies and quantities of energy transferred to a water storage tank were calculated and found to be comparable to those obtained using a water-cooled solar collector. The efficiency of such a collector depends on time of day, solar intensity, ambient temperature and flat-plate mean temperature. Efficiency was studied as a dependent variable on the mentioned parameters and analysed in different figures, then compared with the commonly used water-cooled collector.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(94)00063-C

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