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Case study on spiral solar collector performance with lens

  • Received: 11 April 2020 Accepted: 27 August 2020 Published: 11 September 2020
  • The main objective of this study was to compare between two scenarios of spiral collector; the first one without lens and the other with lens. In the two scenarios, the spiral collector were fabricated from copper tube with 10 mm inner diameter, 15 m length and absorber area 0.5 m2. The lens was selected as acrylic flat lens with transmittance (80 to 90)% and focal distance is 1.3 m. Experiments were carried out at water mass flow rate 0.5 kg/min under the period between 1st to 31th of December over the ambient temperature range of 12 to 17 ℃ and hourly solar radiation range of 525 to 654 W/m2. The experimental results show that the maximum outlet-temperature, useful energy and efficiency was found to be about 19 ℃, 109 W, 35% respectively in scenario of spiral collector without lens. While, in the scenario of spiral with lens was found to be about 21 ℃, 178 W, 60% respectively. As compared between the two scenario, the lens was enhanced the efficiency of spiral collector by 25%.

    Citation: Marwa R. Mohammad1, Dhia A. Alazawi, Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad. Case study on spiral solar collector performance with lens[J]. AIMS Energy, 2020, 8(5): 859-868. doi: 10.3934/energy.2020.5.859

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  • The main objective of this study was to compare between two scenarios of spiral collector; the first one without lens and the other with lens. In the two scenarios, the spiral collector were fabricated from copper tube with 10 mm inner diameter, 15 m length and absorber area 0.5 m2. The lens was selected as acrylic flat lens with transmittance (80 to 90)% and focal distance is 1.3 m. Experiments were carried out at water mass flow rate 0.5 kg/min under the period between 1st to 31th of December over the ambient temperature range of 12 to 17 ℃ and hourly solar radiation range of 525 to 654 W/m2. The experimental results show that the maximum outlet-temperature, useful energy and efficiency was found to be about 19 ℃, 109 W, 35% respectively in scenario of spiral collector without lens. While, in the scenario of spiral with lens was found to be about 21 ℃, 178 W, 60% respectively. As compared between the two scenario, the lens was enhanced the efficiency of spiral collector by 25%.


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