Performance evaluation of evacuated glass tube solar collector with latent heat storage material

  Jain Pankaj K.,  Mutalikdesai Sachin V,  Bharambe Ganesh P

Abstract – Thermal energy storage strongly reduces energy consumption. Storage devices of thermal energy from phase change material (PCM) are essential in solar thermal and waste heat energy technologies that reduced the mismatch between the energy supply to demand and enhance their thermal performance. The storage of PCM thermal energy is more beneficial than sensible energy storage because of its high density of storage energy per unit volume/mass. The work carried out on experimental investigation of the performance of phase change material (PCM) storage for use with conventional solar water heating systems. Paraffin wax stored in small cylindrical polypropylene containers is used as the PCM. The containers are packed in a commercially available, cylindrical Thermal Energy storage tank. The PCM storage advantage is firstly demonstrated under controlled energy input experiments with the addition of an electrical heater on an insulated storage tank, with and without the PCM containers. It was found that the use of the suggested configuration can result in 11 to 12 oC advantage in the stored hot water temperature over extended periods of time.

Keywords- Evacuated glass tube solar collector, Thermal energy storage tank, Phase change material, Reflector, etc

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1603133
Page Number(s) - 815-821
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Jain Pankaj K.,  Mutalikdesai Sachin V,  Bharambe Ganesh P ,   "Performance evaluation of evacuated glass tube solar collector with latent heat storage material", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 3, pp.815-821, September 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1603133.pdf