槽式太阳能集热器传热模型及性能分析

槽式太阳能集热器一维和二维传热数学模型是一组非线性代数方程,为改进求解的稳定性和计算精度,将槽式太阳能集热器一维和二维传热模型的求解看作有约束优化问题,建立了集热器传热过程求解的有约束优化数学模型,应用MATLAB软件优化函数fmincon进行求解。分析了传热流体入口温度及太阳能辐射热流密度变化对集热器性能的影响。采用fmincon函数求解集热器传热过程,计算速度快,计算过程稳定。分析表明,传热流体温度变化对集热器效率的影响大于太阳能辐射热流密度对集热器效率的影响。     

Experimental investigation of the solar cooker during sunshine and off-sunshine hours using the thermal energy storage unit based on a parabolic trough collector

A solar cooker based on a parabolic trough collector with thermal energy storage (TES) was investigated. In this experimental set-up, solar radiations were focused on the absorber tube and the collected heat was transferred to the solar cooker by natural circulation (thermosiphon) of the working fluid. The water and thermal oil (engine oil) were used separately as working fluids. Acetanilide was used as the TES material in the solar cooker. In day time, the phase change material (PCM) stored heat as well as transferred it to the cooking pot. In evening time, the stored energy by PCM was used to cook the food. The cooking process was carried out with different foods and with variation in the quantity of food. It was found that the temperature of thermal oil was 10–24°C higher than water as the working fluid. The system was able to cook the food twice a day and the rate of evening cooking was higher as compared with noon cooking. Using thermal oil as the working fluid, the quantity of heat stored by PCM was increased by an amount of 19.45–30.38% as compared with water.     

Experimental exergy analyses on fabricated parabolic solar collector with/without preheater and different collector materials

This is an experimental work, to get maximum performance by parabolic solar collector (PSC). Three different PSCs are opted with same dimensions for this experimental work; mirror, aluminium and preheater–aluminium collectors. Copper, aluminium, mild steel and brass are selected for various absorber pipe materials. By experimental analyses, fluid temperatures, convective heat transfer coefficients, overall heat loss coefficients, heat removal factors, collector efficiency factors, inlet exergies, outlet exergies, exergy gains and exergy efficiencies are obtained at a range of operating conditions for fabricated PSCs. Exergy analyses are conducted with various fluid flow rates and with different PSCs and then graphs are also generated for these analyses. After analyses, this work can be concluded as – the brass as absorber pipe material and preheater–aluminium sheet combination as PSC are the most excellent to achieve the most favourable performance from fabricated system. This combination gives maximum exergy efficiency which is near about 78%.     

Experimental study and analysis of air heating system using a parabolic trough solar collector

An experimental study of air heating system was carried out using a parabolic trough collector with a U-tube aluminium heat exchanger. An evacuated tube placed at the focal length of the parabolic trough collected the solar radiations reflected from the surface of parabolic trough. The air was used as a working fluid, which was heated by passing it through a U-shaped aluminium heat exchanger placed inside the evacuated tube. It was found that efficiency of the parabolic trough collector depends on the mass flow rate, solar intensity and use of fins. It was observed that by using fins at a high mass flow rate of 4.557?kg/h, the maximum temperature of 126°C was achieved which is 13.27% more than the maximum temperature obtained without fins. Furthermore, for a low-mass-flow rate of 1.69?kg/h, the maximum temperature obtained was 149°C.     

新型变色幕墙太阳能空气集热器冬季热性能实验研究

介绍了一种新型变色幕墙太阳能空气集热器(简称SCCF),这种装置具有冬季供暖和夏季降温的双重功能,在冬季夜间还可起护板的作用,以减少窗户的热损失。实验研究了安装在普通住宅的SCCF装置在不同工况下的集热性能和供暖效果,实测结果表明:SCCF进出风口空气平均温差可达38℃,集热面积为5m~2的SCCF可使实验房内空气平均温度比对比房高3～5℃,SCCF夜间可提高窗户外表面平均温度2.1℃,起到良好的保温作用。     

A comparative performance analysis of solar heat exchangers for solar hot water application under controlled laboratory conditions

The paper presents the experimental performance evaluation of a novel retrofit heat exchanger (‘SolaPlug’) developed for solar hot water storage applications. The performance of this system was compared with a traditional dual-coil (‘Coil’) solar cylinder under controlled operating conditions. The tests were conducted under different solar-simulated conditions with a 30 and 20 evacuated tube collector. The results showed that after a 6-h test period, the average water temperatures within the store for the ‘SolaPlug’ system were 58.8°C and 40.5°C at 860 and 459?W?m^?2, respectively, and for the ‘Coil’ system were 60.5°C and 40.6°C when a 30 tube collector was used. The performance of the ‘SolaPlug’ system was marginally better than the ‘Coil’ system under the low solar input condition. Under high insolation condition, the overall ‘SolaPlug’ system efficiency was found to be 4.3% lower than that of the ‘Coil’ system. The ‘SolaPlug’ heat exchanger rating was 222?W?K^?1.     

Thermal performance analysis of evacuated tubes solar air collector in Indian climate conditions

The thermal performance of one-ended evacuated tubes solar air collector is experimentally investigated during the winter season at NIT Kurukshetra, India [29 ° 58^′(latitude) North and 76 ° 53 ^′ (longitude) East]. The collector consists of 15 one-ended evacuated tubes with different lengths of directional inner aluminium tubes (inserted tubes) and a manifold channel, with air used as a working fluid. The inlet air flows through the directional inner aluminium tubes as a result of forced convection. In this experiment, evacuated tubes are used for producing hot air corresponding to different lengths of directional aluminium tubes without using any intermediate fluid. The temperature of the outlet air depends on the air flow rate, length of the directional aluminium tube and solar intensity. The maximum temperature difference between outlet air and inlet air at solar intensity 904 W/m² was found to be 72.7 °C with a flow rate of 5.06 kg/h and length of 0.83 m.     

Thermal performance of the solar parabolic trough collector at different flow rates: an experimental study

Currently, the most capable thermal systems based on the solar energy are the concentrating collectors, which are essentially finding applications in power generation and process industries. In the present study, thermal performance of the parabolic tough collector (PTC) is investigated experimentally at different flow rates of working fluid. Mass flow rate is one of the key parameters influencing its performance. Here, PTC is constructed as a simple structure having a non-evacuated tube and tested in tracking and south-facing modes utilising water as the working fluid. The performances in terms of water temperature rise, useful heat gain, collector efficiency are evaluated with and without utilising glazing on the receiver. Results revealed that performance of collector chiefly depends upon the mass flow rate and no considerable change is found when the flow rate of water is more than 0.024?kg/s. Furthermore, small-sized PTC offers slight better performance in the south-facing than the tracking mode.     

Experimental and simulation analysis of thermal behavior of large-span roof system under solar radiation

The large-span metal roof systems can produce a significant nonuniform temperature effect under solar radiation, leading to potential safety hazards. An experiment is conducted to study the nonuniform thermal behavior of a small-scale continuous welded stainless steel roof (CWSSR) system under solar radiation. The small-scale CWSSR system considered different roof slopes and sunward side and nightside. The efficiency of the numerical analysis of the thermal behavior of the roof slab is verified in comparison with the experimental results. Based on the numerical and experimental results, the thermal effect of a full-scale CWSSR system is studied under different orientations, wind speeds, and atmospheric temperature. Through the analysis of research results, the nonuniform thermal features of the CWSSR system are significant and cannot be overlooked. The temperature difference between the sunward side and nightside roof slab is positively correlated with the roof slope. The thermal behavior of the CWSSR system is greatly influenced by wind speeds but is less affected by orientations and atmospheric temperature.     

Evaluation and optimisation of receiver height in a compound parabolic collector with low acceptance angle

This research presents the method of finding an optimised location of a tubular receiver for a compound parabolic collector (CPC) with 6° acceptance angle. Due to low acceptance angle, reflected rays concentrate below the focus of a parabola. Graphical ray tracing (GRT) approach is implemented to execute the optical analysis with and without manufacturing error in the collector. It is performed on collector–receiver combinations by varying receiver height below the focus and they are compared on the basis of utilised area and projection ratios. The ideal cases of collector–receiver combinations which contribute high utilisation and projection ratio are selected and verified with the camera target method (CTM) performed on the actual set-up. It is built for water heater application to validate the results obtained from GRT and CTM. The thermal performance of CPC at various receiver heights is compared by thermal efficiency and therefore the optimum receiver height is concluded.     

Effect of flat plate collectors in parallel on the performance of the active solar still for Indian coastal climatic conditions

The effect of flat-plate collectors (FPCs) when connected in parallel on, in particular, the heat transfer coefficients and, in general, distillate output and the efficiency of solar still has been studied in the active mode. The solar still has an effective basin area of 1?m² and fixed cover inclination of 30°. Each FPC with an effective area of 2?m² is attached to the solar still. An effective collector inclination of 5° is used. Experiments have been conducted for 24?h in summer for the active solar distillation system at Kakinada (16°.93′N/83°.33′E), India, which has coastal climatic conditions. The aim of the present work is to study the variation in internal heat transfer coefficients with respect to the number of FPCs coupled with the solar still in parallel. It is understood that the heat transfer coefficients depend significantly on the size of the collector. The size of the collector is increased by increasing the number of collectors. It is also observed that this leads to an increase in distillate output but a decrease in efficiency of the solar still.     

气泡混凝土降温性能的试验研究及数值模拟

在解决夏季城市热岛效应和楼顶层高温的方法中,屋顶绿化和含水砂层等都有较好的降温效果,但是分别存在着价格昂贵、维护不便等缺点,因此在工程推广中受到限制.气泡混凝土具有价格便宜且维护简单的优点,并且之前的研究已经体现出了它具有良好蒸发降温性能的潜质.通过对不同吸水性能的气泡混凝土降温性能的试验研究,找出气泡混凝土降温与吸水性能之间的关系,为不同的工程需求提供一定的参考建议;并运用多孔介质热湿迁移模型对其蒸发降温过程进行数值模拟,在用部分试验数据验证数值模型的正确性后,使用此模型对剩余试验数据进行预测,并达到了良好的预测效果.     

平翅片表面流动和换热的数值模拟研究

利用Fluent软件,采用加密的六面体和四面体网格,建立了翅片管式换热器用矩形平翅片的三维物理模型,对空气内掠翅片表面的流动与换热进行数值模拟求解,得到其在不同风速下的速度场、温度场和努谢尔特数分布,模拟结果与实验数据进行了比较,模拟值偏大,但最大相对误差不超过10．8％。     

Exergetic performance assessment of a solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) air collector

In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the exergetic performance of a solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) air collector. A detailed energy and exergy analysis is carried out to calculate the thermal and electrical parameters, exergy components and exergy efficiency of a typical PV/T air collector. Some corrections are done on related heat loss coefficients. An improved electrical model is used to estimate the electrical parameters of a PV/T air collector. Further, a modified equation for the exergy efficiency of a PV/T air collector is derived in terms of design and climatic parameters. A computer simulation program is also developed to calculate the thermal and electrical parameters of a PV/T air collector. The results of numerical simulation are in good agreement with the experimental measurements noted in the previous literature. Finally, parametric studies have been carried out. It is observed that the modified exergy efficiency obtained in this paper is in good agreement with the one given by the previous literature. It is also found that the thermal efficiency, electrical efficiency, overall energy efficiency and exergy efficiency of PV/T air collector is about 17.18%, 10.01%, 45% and 10.75% respectively for a sample climatic, operating and design parameters.     

Numerical model of natural convective heat transfer within a solar dryer using an indirect double pass collector

The double pass collector is one of the most efficient means of drying crops because heating of air takes place from both sides of the absorber plate. To investigate the performance, a double pass natural convection solar dryer was fabricated for experimentation; the results were collected and used to develop a validated numerical model using MATLAB. The experiments were undertaken during February–March 2016 in Salem Tamil Nadu, India over 10 sunshine days. The simulation was carried using the developed model under the measured ambient conditions. The results showed that the mathematical model could predict the performance of the double pass collector for a particular ambient condition to an uncertainty of ±5%. This model could be used to optimise the performance of the collector so that we can predict and investigate the actual performance of the collector with the various optimised designs before fabricating the dryer.     

Thermal zoning and interzonal airflow in the design and simulation of solar houses: a sensitivity analysis

Many assumptions must be made about thermal zoning and interzonal airflow for modelling the performance of buildings. This is particularly important for solar homes, which are subjected to high levels of periodic solar heat gains in certain zones. The way in which these passive solar heat gains are distributed to other zones of a building has a significant effect on predicted energy performance, thermal comfort and optimal design selection. This article presents a comprehensive sensitivity analysis that quantifies the effect of thermal zoning and interzonal airflow on building performance, optimal south-facing glazing area, and thermal comfort. The effect of controlled shades to control unwanted solar gains is also explored. Results show that passive solar buildings, in particular, can benefit from increased air circulation with a forced air system because it allows solar gains to be redistributed and thus reduces direct gain zone overheating and total energy consumption.     

福建省大型太阳能热水系统的运行模式与操作管理分析

随着近几年国家对可再生能源在建筑工程中应用补贴政策的推行,福建省太阳能热水系统与建筑一体化工程项目迅速的增加,如何掌握太阳能热水系统的经济运行与科学管理,成为业主的当务之急。太阳能热水系统在不同季节气候条件下生产、储存的热水量是不同的,业主使用热水的运行模式也是不同的,且运行的费用也不同。在全年不同气候条件下,太阳能集热器和空气源热泵热水机组如何各司其责,是管理者必须要掌握的。     

Hybrid models for global solar radiation prediction: a case study

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a comparison between different prediction models for solar radiation application. The present study assessed the performance of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) as well as boosted decision tree, and used a new combinition of these models with linear regression for the prediction of daily global solar irradiation (DGSR). The performance of the studied models was validated using a real dataset measured at the Applied Research Unit for Renewable Energies (URAER) situated in the south of Algeria. Different input combinations have been analysed in order to select the relevant input parameters for DGSR prediction. The results acheived show that the MLP model perfoms better than the others models in terms of statistical indicators: normalised root mean square error (0.033) and R² (97.7%).     

A theoretical study of Cu-H2O nano-fluid effect on heat transfer enhancement of a solar water heater

In the present work, an attempt has been made to enhance the heat transfer in a solar water heater by using Cu nano-particles dispersed in water for various concentrations ranging from 0% to 5%. Considerable improvement in the solar collector efficiency is obtained by increasing the nano-particle concentration up to 17.5 for a concentration of 5% and for a mass flow rate ratio of 10. The outlet water temperature increases by increasing the nano-particle concentration up to 8.35% for a concentration of 5% and for a mass flow rate ratio of 5. The study showed that the solar heater collecting area takes into account significant factors for increasing the outlet temperature. An increase in the collecting area of the solar water heater by 6 times could increase the water temperature by 39% for a 5% nano-particle volume fraction. The helical heat exchanger effectiveness is increased up to 65.71 for a concentration of 5% for a mass flow rate ratio of 10.     

Experimental study and simulation of a solar dryer for spearmint leaves (Mentha spicata)

An indirect forced convection solar dryer consisting of an air flat plate collector and a drying cabin was designed and fabricated to investigate its performance under the climate of Algiers. Drying experiments have been performed for spearmint leaves at different air flow rates in order to determine the drying velocity, the characteristic drying curve, the effective diffusion coefficient and the activation energy. A mathematical model based on thermal and mass balances over the component of the solar collector and the cabinet dryer was developed. Simulations are carried out for meteorological data of Algiers (Algeria). We analyse the effect of air mass flow rate, air temperature, products mass, collector area, air recycling rate on the drying time, the solar fraction and the efficiency of the dryer.