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Transient method for testing flat-plate solar collectors

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Title Transient method for testing flat-plate solar collectors
 
Creator AMER, EH
NAYAK, JK
SHARMA, GK
 
Subject flat-plate collectors
transient method
collector parameters
outdoor testing
 
Description A transient test method has been developed to characterize the dynamic behavior of flat-plate solar collectors. It is based on a one-node model in which the heat capacity of the plate, the tubes and the fluid are lumped together in one node referred to the mean temperature of the working fluid. The method is simple and less time consuming. It has been validated and the results are very close to those obtained from steady state tests based on the ASHRAE 93-86 standard; the percentage of deviation is about 0.5 and 2.5% in F(tau alpha)(e) and FU(L), respectively. The effects of inlet temperature and incidence angle on collector parameters have also been investigated. The theoretical predictions based on the parameters obtained from the transient test method agree reasonably with experimental observations. (C) 1998 .
 
Publisher PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2011-08-27T01:49:15Z
2011-12-26T12:57:40Z
2011-12-27T05:44:38Z
2011-08-27T01:49:15Z
2011-12-26T12:57:40Z
2011-12-27T05:44:38Z
1998
 
Type Article
 
Identifier ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, 39(7), 549-558
0196-8904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0196-8904(97)10014-0
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/11499
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/11499
 
Language en