SHANDONG SCIENCE ›› 2015, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 39-46.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2015.02.007

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Flat microheat pipe arrays based thermal performance of a newtype solar energy air collector

ZHU Tingting, DIAO Yanhua*, ZHAO Yaohua, DENG Yuechao   

  1. School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • Received:2015-02-06 Published:2015-04-20 Online:2015-04-20

Abstract: We constructed a 3D steadystatus model for flat microheat pipe arrays solar energy air collector. We also performed grid segmentation and numerical calculation for the physical model of single heat collection unit with software Gambit and Fluent. We further simulated heat exchange and flow of single pipe and verified its effectiveness by experiments.Experimental results show that the simulated results fit well with the experimental results, less than 12% deviation.This demonstrates the rationality of the model. Our research can provide theoretical basis for optimization design of flat microheat pipe arrays solar energy air collector in future.

Key words: numerical simulation, solar energy, flat microheat pipe arrays, air heat collector

CLC Number: 

  • TK512

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