Book

Description

Experimental Investigation of Evacuated Tube Collectors provides a comprehensive laboratory and research-oriented treatment of evacuated tube solar thermal collectors. It explains collector construction, direct-flow and heat-pipe configurations, experimental apparatus, instrumentation, calibration, solar-radiation measurement, temperature and flow-rate measurement, steady-state and quasi-dynamic testing, thermal efficiency, heat-transfer analysis, exergy and entropy generation, uncertainty analysis and experimental validation. The book also discusses the effects of mass flow rate, solar irradiance, inlet temperature, tilt angle, working fluid, tube geometry and thermal storage, together with CFD validation, statistical analysis, optimization and research reporting.