Effects of the inclination angle on the performance of flat plate solar collector

Double glasses cover is typically used in a flat plate solar collector to decrease heat losses to ambient. The working principal of the cover is to allow the solar irradiation hit the plate absorber and blocks it using natural convection mechanism in the enclosure between the glasses. The performanc...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2018-03, Vol.978 (1), p.12097
Main Authors: Ambarita, H, Siregar, R E T, Ronowikarto, A D, Setyawan, E Y
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computational fluid dynamics
Enclosures
Flat plates
Fluid flow
Free convection
Heat loss
Heat transfer coefficients
Inclination angle
Microscopes
Physics
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Summary:Double glasses cover is typically used in a flat plate solar collector to decrease heat losses to ambient. The working principal of the cover is to allow the solar irradiation hit the plate absorber and blocks it using natural convection mechanism in the enclosure between the glasses. The performance of the enclosure to block the heat loss to the surrounding affected by the inclination angle of the collector. The objective of this study is to explore the effect of the inclination angle to the performance of the solar collector. Numerical simulation using commercial code Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) has been carried out to explore the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in the enclosure. In the result, streamline, vector velocity, and contour temperature are plotted. It was shown that the inclination angle strongly affects the performance of the collector. The average heat transfer coefficient decreases with increasing inclination angle. This fact suggests that too high inclination angle is not recommended for solar collector.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/978/1/012097