EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON A FLAT PLATE COLLECTOR ASSISTED FOR SOLAR WATER HEATING UNIT
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.73How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Solar energy, Flat plate Collector, Efficiency and Heated water
- Abstract
The aim of the study was to develop Flat Plate Collector (FPC) from the locally available material in the market for the purpose of solar water heating. The efficiency of the collector was tested with the normal flow of water under ambient temperatures of 25oC for the consequently months of the year. The efficiency was noted 36.97% and 37.29% with the highest amount of absorbing solar irradiance from 4580 kJ.m-2.hr-1 and 4365 kJ.m-2.hr-1 for the month of June and July respectively. Results showed that the efficiency was increased significantly with the increasing of zenith and azimuth angle of the sun. From the results it was clearly showed that the collector gives maximum heated water from 16930 to 16277 l/month respectively due to the greater sun rays falling on the collector. It was observed from the experimental results, that water heated at a very fast rate with the highest amount of solar irradiance absorption with the highest efficiency of the collector and proves that FPC was the best technique to be used for the purposes of water heating.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fahim Ullah AU - Mansoor Khan Khattak AU - Min Kang AU - Xiuqing Fu AU - Hengtai Niu AU - Hengzheng Li AU - Ninghui Li PY - 2016/12 DA - 2016/12 TI - EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON A FLAT PLATE COLLECTOR ASSISTED FOR SOLAR WATER HEATING UNIT BT - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 393 EP - 399 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-16.2016.73 DO - 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.73 ID - Ullah2016/12 ER -