Enhancing the Performance of Evacuated Tube Heat Pipe Solar Collector Using CuO Nanofluid

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Year : 2024 | Volume :11 | Special Issue : 08 | Page : 393-407
By

    N. Jayanthi

  1. M. Venkatesh

  2. R. Suresh Kumar

1.1 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, R.M.K. College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India

1.2 Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

2.1 Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Physics, K.S. Rangasamy College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India

3.1 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, R.M.K. Engineering College, Tiruvallur, India

Abstract

Renewable energy is an important component of sustainable development technologies that meet current demands without risking future generations’ ability to meet their own. Due to fast expanding energy consumption and environmental concerns, many international scholars are seeking an alternate approach to fulfill future energy demand. Due to its abundance and pure nature, solar energy appears to be the most enticing option in this case. Because of their ease of use, high conversion factors, and economic viability, solar thermal systems are currently the most common. The performance of solar thermal technology is influenced by factors such as nanofluids, solar radiation, collector tilt, and so on. The temperature of the various nanofluids employed determines the system’s efficiency. As a result, in this situation, their performance analysis is more critical. The temperature of the various nanofluids employed determines the system’s efficiency. A heat transfer mechanism is the heat pipe that receives heat from the sun through the radiation absorbed by the working fluids and transports it from one location to another using the vaporization and condensation process. In recent years, evacuated tube Heat pipe applications for solar collectors are numerous. Using distilled water, R134a, and CuO Nanofluid as working fluids in heat pipe, an experimental investigation is conducted in this study to determine the thermal efficiency of an Evacuated Tube Heat Pipe Solar Collector (ETHPSC). The copper tube used to create the heat pipe in ETHPSC has an outside width of 18 mm and a stretch of 1820 mm. The influence of input variables based on the thermal performance of the ETHPSC, such as temperature distribution and time, was examined, compared, and debated. The results show that using CuO Nanofluid instead of distilled water and R134a increases the Heat Pipe Solar Collector (HPSC’s) effectiveness. The CFD analysis was carried out for the heat pipe in ETHPSC used similar to that of the experimental investigation and the result holds good with the experimental values.

Keywords: Solar Collector, Nanofluids, Transfer of Heat, Thermal Efficiency, Distilled Water, R134a.

This article belongs to Special Issue Conference International Conference on Innovative Concepts in Mechanical Engineering (ICICME – 2023)

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Conference Open Access Original Research
Volume 11
Special Issue 08
Received November 27, 2023
Accepted January 5, 2024
Published March 28, 2024
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