SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2010.061 2010.061 Experimental study of the performance of a novel dual-function solar collector MaJinwei SunWei weisun66@ustc.edu.cn JiJie Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China 24082010 9 978-1-995850-04-7 1 5 24 August 2010 © 2010 Copyright WSSET 2010

A novel dual-function solar collector with L-shaped fins and tube structure is presented. Air or water could be heated by it in correspondence with the variation of seasons or under different applications. In this paper, its air heating performance is investigated experimentally. An experimental system was set up and whole-day experiments were operated to investigate its performance. The experimental results indicate that the thermal efficiency reaches over 55% in air heating mode, which is much higher than conventional flat plane air heater.

 flat-plane solar collector dual-function double-flow L-shaped fins 24 to 27 August 2010 9th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2010 9 Shanghai, China