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Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy pp 467–476Cite as

Concrete Solar Collector

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Concrete solar collector is an attempt to create an effective alternative for conventional solar collectors. Concrete has high heat storage capacity. Also, the problem of corrosion automatically gets eliminated due to the alkaline characteristic of cement. Cement concrete plays the role of heat absorber while the flow tubes are made up of copper. For the enhancement of heat transfer, dimpled surface copper flow tubes are used. Dimples improve the heat transfer rate with very little pressure drop. The project consists of a 2 m × 1 m setup and it deals with analyzing its performance under various conditions. For testing, we use pyranometer for measuring solar radiation, thermocouples for measuring the temperature of inlet and outlet water and digital temperature indicator for temperature indication.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

    Pratik M. Waghmare, Shrishail B. Sollapur & Shweta M. Wange

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Sabyasachi SenGupta

  2. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University London, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

    Ahmed F. Zobaa

  3. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology , Rangpo, Sikkim, India

    Karma Sonam Sherpa

  4. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology , Rangpo, Sikkim, India

    Akash Kumar Bhoi

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Waghmare, P.M., Sollapur, S.B., Wange, S.M. (2018). Concrete Solar Collector. In: SenGupta, S., Zobaa, A., Sherpa, K., Bhoi, A. (eds) Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 435. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4286-7_46

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