Cusp mirror—Heat pipe evacuated tubular solar thermal collector |
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Authors: | Ugur Ortabasi Francis P Fehlner |
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Affiliation: | Corning Glass Works, Research and Development Laboratories, Corning, NY 14830, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A solar thermal collector was constructed based on an internal 1.15X cusp concentrator, thermal insulation involving a vacuum and selective absorber, and thermal transfer to a manifold via heat-pipe action. Performance of the collector was compared with that of an evacuated, selectively coated, flat-plate absorber equipped with flow-through heat transfer. It was shown that with single collector tubes, mirror losses lowered the optical efficiency of the cusp, heat-pipe collector below that of the flat plate, while the smaller absorber area of the heat pipe reduced thermal losses at absorber temperatures above ambient. Thus, a crossover in efficiency occurred such that the flat plate was more efficient at low
while the cusp-heat pipe was more efficient at high
. Testing of modules showed that manifold losses and gains could dominate these collector effects when the collector area approximately equaled the manifold area. |
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