Group 3

Experiment No.: 16

Title: Thermal performance of solar water heater

Aim: Heating and cooling performance of Flat Plate Solar Collector

Instruments used:
Sl.no. Instrument name Specification Make Quantity
1. Anemometer DC 9V METRAVI 1
2. Suryamapi CEL 1
3. Thermocouple K type(Chromel- METRAVI 2
Alumel),Range=-50C-
1300C
4. Multimeter 250mA/250V Max METRAVI 1
5. Pyranometer Calibration factor- 1
7.56V/W/m2

Fig.1: Schematic diagram

Procedure:

1. Insert the thermocouples in the inlet and outlet of the FPC.

2. Adjust the flow of the water through the collector at 0.02 kg/s/m2.
3. Take the readings of inlet and outlet water temperature, mass flow rate of water, solar
radiation falling on the FPC and the wind speed in every 5 minutes.
4. Determine the parameters as per the result section.

Results and discussion:

 Radiation Wind velocity, Average
Time (W/m2) Ta, C Tfi, C m, kg/s Tin, C m/s Efficiency, Efficiency
11:40 400 28 35 0.02 28 0.57 73.15
11:45 700 28 35 0.02 28 0.46 41.8
11:50 600 28 35 0.02 28 0.85 48.77
11:55 400 28 35 0.02 28 0.2 73.15
12:05 400 27 33 0.02 28 0.53 62.7
12:10 390 27.3 31 0.02 28 1.2 39.66
12:15 410 27.6 30 0.02 28 0.95 24.47 33.52%
12:20 880 28 32 0.02 28 0.78 19
12:25 880 28.7 32 0.02 28 0.48 15.68
12:30 220 28.7 31 0.02 28 1.06 43.7
12:35 800 29 31 0.02 28 1.77 10.45
12:40 800 28.7 31 0.02 28 0.87 12.02
12:45 400 28.5 30 0.02 28 1.17 15.68
12:50 700 28.7 30 0.02 28 0.53 7.763
13:00 900 28.8 32 0.02 28 0.41 14.86

We found that the outlet temperature is more than the inlet temperature of water