Research Article
Thermal Performance of a Dimpled Tube Parabolic Trough Solar Collector (PTSC) with SiO2 Nanofluid
Table 1
Specification of the experimental setup.
| Specification | Dimensions |
| Collector length | 1800 mm | Width of collector | 1200 mm | Length of absorber plate | 1650 mm | Thermal conductivity of absorber plate | 387 W (mK)-1 | Width of the absorber plate | 1000 mm | Plate thickness | 5 cm | The density of plate material | 8954 kg/m3 | The diameter of the riser pipe | 0.0125 m | The diameter of the header pipe | 2.5 cm | The riser and head of thickness | 7 cm | Tube centre to centre distance | 11.25 cm | Glass and absorber plate between the spacing | 30 cm | Thermal conductivity of insulation material | 0.044 W (mK)-1 | The density of the insulation material | 200 kg/m3 | The thickness of the insulation material | 0.05 m | Area of the absorber plate | mm | The thickness of the riser tube | 1 mm |
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