Publication detail

Solar Absorbers with a Structured Surface

ŘIHÁČEK, J. HORNÍK, P. MRŇA, L. ŠARBORT, M.

English title

Solar Absorbers with a Structured Surface

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

en

Original abstract

The article deals with the issue of a new type of solar absorbers, which have a direct flow structure and a structured surface, which consists of pyramidal cavities. This solution increases a thermal efficiency. In the first part, possible parameters that affect the thermal efficiency of solar collectors are described and further, a simulation of a dependence of a resulting absorption coefficient at a pyramidal apex angle and daytime or season is performed. For this purpose a simulation program was developed in the MATLAB software environment by using the Monte Carlo method. The second part of the paper deals with the possibilities of production of the solar absorber with the structured surface, mainly by using the pillow hydroforming technology. The production process is simulated in ANSYS software. In this case, an austenitic chromium nickel stainless steel X5CrNi18-10 is used as a material for the production of solar absorbers.

English abstract

The article deals with the issue of a new type of solar absorbers, which have a direct flow structure and a structured surface, which consists of pyramidal cavities. This solution increases a thermal efficiency. In the first part, possible parameters that affect the thermal efficiency of solar collectors are described and further, a simulation of a dependence of a resulting absorption coefficient at a pyramidal apex angle and daytime or season is performed. For this purpose a simulation program was developed in the MATLAB software environment by using the Monte Carlo method. The second part of the paper deals with the possibilities of production of the solar absorber with the structured surface, mainly by using the pillow hydroforming technology. The production process is simulated in ANSYS software. In this case, an austenitic chromium nickel stainless steel X5CrNi18-10 is used as a material for the production of solar absorbers.

Keywords in Czech

solar absorber, numeric simulation, hydroforming, X5CrNi18-10 steel, MATLAB, ANSYS, LS-DYNA

Keywords in English

solar absorber, numeric simulation, hydroforming, X5CrNi18-10 steel, MATLAB, ANSYS, LS-DYNA

Released

01.06.2018

Publisher

MM Science Journal

Location

Praha

ISSN

1805-0476

Volume

2018

Number

2

Pages from–to

2390–2396

Pages count

7

BIBTEX


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  author="Jan {Řiháček} and Petr {Horník} and Libor {Mrňa} and Martin {Šarbort},
  title="Solar Absorbers with a Structured Surface",
  year="2018",
  volume="2018",
  number="2",
  month="June",
  pages="2390--2396",
  publisher="MM Science Journal",
  address="Praha",
  issn="1805-0476"
}