Solar collector storage tank

Solar collector storage tank is water tank used to store hot water for space heating or domestic use. The main purpose of this project is to design and fabricate storage tank for evacuated tube solar collector and to determine the overall heat loss of the storage tank and the period of heat energy s...

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Main Author: Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim
Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling oai:umpir.ump.edu.my:82822015-11-16T08:11:25Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8282/ Solar collector storage tank Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Solar collector storage tank is water tank used to store hot water for space heating or domestic use. The main purpose of this project is to design and fabricate storage tank for evacuated tube solar collector and to determine the overall heat loss of the storage tank and the period of heat energy storage after sunset. Two types of insulator are used for testing the respectively such as polyurethane and woolen coat. This is due to low thermal conductivity of polyurethane and sheep wool of 0.03 W/m.K and 0.039 W/m.K compared to insulator which is many orders higher. The experiment consists to two types of fluid which are distilled water and nanofluid of silicon oxide (SiO). In this experiment, the systems are divided into two types which are without control system and with control system. The results obtained show that to the nanofluid using silicon oxide (SiO) with control system is the best result compared distilled water. It has shown the result of nanofluid achieved higher temperature of 86.7 and with different temperature of 47.52 %. The investigation for distilled water shows, the storage temperature with control system is higher than without control system with different 6.68 %. 2013-06 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8282/1/cd8202_95.pdf Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim (2013) Solar collector storage tank. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:81893&theme=UMP2
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Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim
Solar collector storage tank
description Solar collector storage tank is water tank used to store hot water for space heating or domestic use. The main purpose of this project is to design and fabricate storage tank for evacuated tube solar collector and to determine the overall heat loss of the storage tank and the period of heat energy storage after sunset. Two types of insulator are used for testing the respectively such as polyurethane and woolen coat. This is due to low thermal conductivity of polyurethane and sheep wool of 0.03 W/m.K and 0.039 W/m.K compared to insulator which is many orders higher. The experiment consists to two types of fluid which are distilled water and nanofluid of silicon oxide (SiO). In this experiment, the systems are divided into two types which are without control system and with control system. The results obtained show that to the nanofluid using silicon oxide (SiO) with control system is the best result compared distilled water. It has shown the result of nanofluid achieved higher temperature of 86.7 and with different temperature of 47.52 %. The investigation for distilled water shows, the storage temperature with control system is higher than without control system with different 6.68 %.
format Undergraduates Project Papers
author Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim
author_facet Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim
author_sort Nur Liyana, Abdul Rahim
title Solar collector storage tank
title_short Solar collector storage tank
title_full Solar collector storage tank
title_fullStr Solar collector storage tank
title_full_unstemmed Solar collector storage tank
title_sort solar collector storage tank
publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8282/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8282/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8282/1/cd8202_95.pdf
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