열파이프가 부착된 평판형 태양열 집열기의 열전달 특성에 대한 실험적 고찰

An Experimental Study on the Heat Transfer Characteristics for a Flat Plate Solar Collector with a Heat Pipe

본 연구에서는 그 동안 본 실험실에서 태양열 집열기용으로 개발한 에탄올 열파이프를 집열판에 설치하여 집열기 모델을 설계 제작하였다. 그리고 실제 태양 복사하에서 집열기의 집열과 열이송과정에 대한 특성을 검토함으로써 열파이프의 적 응성을 확인하였다. 특히 열파이프의 시동 및 작동상태, 집열판내의 열유동과정 그리고 집열기의 집열효율에 관하여 고찰하였다.

In this study, a model of a flat plate solar collector using a heat pipe was manufactured and tested to investigate such operational characteristics of the present system of solar collector as start-up process, temperature distribution on the absorber plate and operation of the heat pipe. Moreover, collector efficiency was measured for 20-30 minutes of operation at various conditions of weather and the result was compared with that tested by Hill et. a. for a flat plate solar collector using direct circulation of coolant. Some results obtained in this study could be summarized as follows. (1) The required time for the initial start-up process was about 5-6 minutes, but the heat pipe began to operate as soon as the absorber plate was exposed to solar radiation. (2) On the absorber plate, the temperature distributions in axial direction maintained nearly constant, while temperature distributions in transversal direction showed smooth decrease with $3-5^{\cird}C$ along with solar radiation. (3) Thermal inertia of the collector system had a favorable effect to damp the turbulent variation of solar radiation. (4) The collector efficiency of the present system showed nearly the same tendency but a decrease of about 10% compared with that using direct circulation of coolant.