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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2011-09-01

发表刊物：SOLAR ENERGY

收录刊物：Scopus、SCIE、EI

卷号：85

期号：9

页面范围：1735-1744

ISSN号：0038-092X

关键字：Filled-type; Evacuated tube; U-tube; Theoretical analysis; Experimental study

摘要：The filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube, in which the filled layer is used to transfer energy absorbed by the working fluid flowing in the U-tube, is proposed to eliminate the influence of thermal resistance between the absorber tube and the copper fin of the conventional evacuated solar collector. In this paper, the thermal performance of the filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube was researched by means of theoretical analysis and experimental study. The temperature of the working fluid in the flow direction was obtained, and the efficiency of the evacuated tube was also calculated, based on the energy balance equations for the working fluid in the U-tube. The effects of the heat loss coefficient and the thermal conductivity of the filled layer on the thermal performance of the evacuated tube were studied. In addition, the test setup of the thermal performance of the filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube was established. The evacuated tube considered in this study was a two-layered glass evacuated tube, and the absorber film was deposited in the outer surface of the absorber tube. The results show that the filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube has a favourable thermal performance. When the thermal conductivity of the heat transmission component is lambda(c) = 100, the efficiency of the filled-type evacuated tube with U-tube is 12% higher than that of the U-tube evacuated tube with a copper fin. The modelling predictions were validated using experimental data which show that there is a good concurrence between the measured and predicted results. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.