Air-Type Vacuum-Tube Solar Collector Design and Heat Collection Performance Test

Chuanhui Zhu (), Xiaodong Dong, Shubin Yan, Yang Cui and Quanquan Luo
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Chuanhui Zhu: The College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, China
Xiaodong Dong: Tibet Autonomous Region Energy Research Demonstration Center, Xizang 850000, China
Shubin Yan: The College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, China
Yang Cui: The College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, China
Quanquan Luo: School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 15, 1-10

Abstract: With the continuous development and utilization of clean energy, the thermal utilization of solar energy is an important research direction. In view of the problems of the low utilization rate of solar heat in alpine regions of solar energy, an air-type vacuum-tube solar collector (AVSC) with air as the heat-exchange medium was designed. The vacuum tube of the solar heat collector adopted a double-pass spiral direct-current structure, and the vacuum tube had a built-in heat-storage rod. In order to test the heat collection performance of the designed air evacuated-tube solar collector, a heat collection performance test of the collector was conducted. The results showed that the average heat collection efficiency of the vacuum tube solar collector without phase-change heat-storage rods was 38%. The evacuated-tube solar collector using water as the heat transfer medium had an average heat collection efficiency of 58%. The average equivalent heat collection efficiency of the AVSC with a built-in phase-change heat-storage rod was 61%.

Keywords: solar collector; phase-change heat storage; heat-storage rod; ammonium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate/stearic acid composite material; hot-water storage tank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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