Year Round Thermal Performance of Solar Parabolic Through Collector

Abstract

Solar Parabolic Trough Collectors has various solar thermal applications, such as production of electricity and high temperature applications. A receiver is mounted at focal of the concentrator and coated with the selective coating. Receiver heat loss and it optical performance is essential to understand when operating at different conditions. Such performance availability is helpful to develop experimental setup and analyze the same for various heat transfer enhancement techniques that are yet to be use and not reported. To understand the performance before such analysis, this study represents a one dimensional numerical analysis of a PTC. In present work Engineering Equation Solver is used to develop the programme for analyzing thermal performance of a PTC. The developed model results were well agreed with the published data. Maximum optical efficiency is 77.19% and the maximum useful heat reaches to 1030 Watt in the month of May and 570 Watt in the month of December.