• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.189-195
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• 2014

The use of solar energy among renewable energy tends to increase because of its infinity and cleanness of resources. Even though the consumption rate of solar energy in our country is still low, however, in recent years, the research for solar energy have been widely conducted due to policy support of government. This study was performed to investigate the efficiency of heat collection using solar collector with single evacuated tube-type. As the results, the temperature of radiation fin for solar collector with single evacuated tube-type was lower in spite of high temperature of heat pipe compared that of double evacuated tube-type. In order to increase the efficiency of heat collection, it was confirmed that the loss of heat collection due to contact resistance as well as performance improvement for solar collector should be decreased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.149-156
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• 2013

The performances of solar collectors with single and double evacuated tube were experimentally compared. The solar collector with single evacuated tube using surface treatment in this study consists of radiation fin, heat pipe, absorber plate, glass tube, cap and regulating valve, and so on. Surface treatment was conducted for heat pipe and absorber plate with black chrome plating and copper black coating. As the results, the performance of solar collector with single evacuated tube using surface treatment showed good results compared that of double evacuated tube. Absorber plate played a positive role in performance and showed increase of about 28%. Further performance depends on vacuum degree and vacuum degree has to be considered economical efficiency in solar collector.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.22-29
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of a solar collector to introduce natural convection in a water tank as a means of obtaining warm water. Numerical analysis was performed to predict the characteristics of the solar collector and its performance was verified using an experimental method. The single vacuum structure of the collector enabled natural convection when it was fitted on the water tank. Based on numerical analysis, warm water of $31-54^{\circ}C$ was obtained when the inlet temperature of cold water was $20^{\circ}C$. Furthermore, the temperature of the warm water could be predicted under various conditions as well as the experimental conditions created for this study.