Abstract Heat pipes are transport mechanisms that can carry heat fluxes ranging from 10 W/cm2 to 20 KW/cm2 at extremely fast speeds. Therefore, heat pipes are widely used in 1U servers, notebooks, PCs, etc. A heat pipe is a heat removal device comprising a vacuum pipe that charges a certain amount of working fluid and seals the tube. Hence, the heat pipe performance depends not only on the geometric parameters such as wall thickness, tube material, and wick material but also on the thermal properties of the working fluid such as latent heat, vapor pressure, viscosity, and vacuum pressure. Traditionally, the fluid inventory of heat pipes was measured by the lost weight method, that is measuring the weight of the heat pipe first, then, breaking the heat pipe, after drying in the oven, then weighting again, and the lost weight would be the weight of the working fluid. This paper presents a new methodological concept to measure the inventory by a basic energy mass balance equation. The Measurement theory not only calculates the fluid inventory but also the vacuum pressure data. The experimental results show that when the weight percentage of working fluid was larger than 10% of total pipe weight, the relative errors were within 4% when compared with the known inventory. 相似文献
In this review, flat plate and concentrate-type solar collectors, integrated collector–storage systems, and solar water heaters combined with photovoltaic–thermal modules, solar-assisted heat pump solar water heaters, and solar water heaters using phase change materials are studied based on their thermal performance, cost, energy, and exergy efficiencies. The maximum water temperature and thermal efficiencies are enlisted to evaluate the thermal performance of the different solar water heaters. It is found that the solar water heaters’ performance is considerably improved by boosting water flow rate and tilt angle, modification of the shape and number of collectors, using wavy diffuse and electrodepositioned reflector coating, application of the corrugated absorber surface and coated absorber, use of turbulent enhancers, using thermal conductive working fluid and nanofluid, the inclusion of the water storage tank, and tank insulation. These items increase the heat transfer area and coefficient, thermal conductivity, the Reynolds and Nusselt numbers, heat transfer rate, and energy and exergy efficiencies. The evacuated tube heaters have a higher temperature compared to the collectors with a plane surface. Their thermal performance increases by using all-glass active circulation and heat pipe integration. The concentrative type of solar water heaters is superior to other solar heaters, particularly in achieving higher water temperatures. Their performance improves by using a rotating mirror concentrator. The integration of the system with energy storage components, phase change materials, or a heat pump provides a satisfactory performance over conventional solar water heaters.
In this paper, an integrated solar heat pipe wall space heating system, employing double glazed heat pipe evacuated tube solar collector and forced convective heat transfer condenser, is introduced. Thermal performance of the heat pipe solar collector is studied and a numerical model is developed to investigate the thermal efficiency of the system, the inlet and outlet air temperatures and heat pipe temperature. Furthermore, the system performance is evaluated based on exergy efficiency. In order to verify the precision of the developed model, the numerical results are compared with experimental data. Parametric sensitivity for design features and material associated with the heat pipe, collector cover and insulation is evaluated to provide a combination with higher thermal performance. Simulation results show that applying a solar collector with more than 30 heat pipes is not efficient. The rate of increasing in temperature of air becomes negligible after 30 heat pipes and the trend of the thermal efficiency is descending with increasing heat pipes. The results also indicate that at a cold winter day of January, the proposed system with a 20 heat pipe collector shows maximum energy and exergy efficiency of 56.8% and 7.2%, which can afford warm air up to 30°C. At the end, the capability of the proposed system to meet the heating demand of a building is investigated. It is concluded that the best method to reach a higher thermal covered area is to apply parallel collectors. 相似文献
Coating and Evacuation of Solar Collector Tubes The company NARVA, a traditional German producer of fluorescent lamps, has started in 2005 the development of a new vacuum absorber tube for collecting of solar energy for warmth of buildings or for process heat. By adapting the experience of lamp making NARVA is using their self produced soda lime glass, coated with Siliciumdioxide nano particles for the collector tubes. This coating gives better transmission, less corrosion and a behaviour like safety glass in case of destruction. A other interesting item in the development of the vacuum process is the „light oven”︁. By use the light oven it was possible to reach the necessary temperature on the absorber fin for an effective desorption of the water molecules from the surface of the fins and to reach the target vacuum. 相似文献
An electrochromic (EC) vacuum glazing (VG) is formed when a vacuum glazing is combined with an electrochromic glazing. Three glass panes are required, two of which may have a low-emittance coating separated by a pillar array, the space formed being evacuated and sealed contiguously by a metal edge seal, the third glass pane with an EC layer is sealed to the evacuated glass unit. With the EC glazing installed with the electrochromic component facing the outdoor environment, for an incident solar radiation of 300 W m− 2, when the EC layer is opaque for winter conditions, the inside glass pane of the unit due to solar radiation absorbed by the low-emittance coatings within the vacuum gap and electrochromic layer is a heat source with heat transferred from the glazing to the interior environment. 相似文献