B. Solar Thermal Lab
Ecosense’s Solar Thermal Labs provides an
end-to-end learning and training in the field of Solar Thermal. Solar Thermal
Lab consists of five products which together covers the entire concepts of
Solar Thermal technology, usage and Installation.
This lab consists of the following
equipments:
B.1. Solar Thermal Training System
Solar Thermal Training
System is a small model of real time water heating system and can be used for
the characterization and different heat transfer analysis. Different aspects
like efficiency, overall heat loss coefficient and heat removal factor and their
corresponding calculations can be demonstrated with the help of this system.
Special feature of this system is to perform experiments with different wind
speeds, different fluid temperatures and different flow speeds.
B.2. Solar Concentrator Training
System
The Solar
Concentrator Training System is a compact and miniaturized version of Solar
parabolic trough collector-based water heating system. The system consists of
parabolic reflectors, absorber tube, sun tracker, piping, storage tanks and a
heat exchanger. A control panel would control different devices and also
measure the different parameters of the system. The system can be used to
perform experiments on heat transfer, parabolic trough characteristics and heat
loss at different parts of the system. The system is highly flexible – it can
be used with different working fluids, different absorbing materials, different
piping insulation thickness and different types of storage tanks. This gives a
lot of scope for research in heat transfer and related fields. Wind speed
variation and flow velocity are other parameters which can be changed to show
their impact on heat transfer and heat loss.
B.3. ETC Characterisation System for
Thermal Analysis of Fluids.
An ETC characterization system for thermal analysis of fluids
is a mini closed-loop Evacuated Tube Collector system to study the thermal
characteristics of various fluids. The system uses an artificial sunlight
source to illuminate evacuated tube collector so that it can be used inside a
lab and is independent of the natural climate.
The system includes header storage tank, ETC tubes and a pump
which make it suitable for the system analysis and evaluation of thermal
characteristics. Different sensors such as pressure, temperature, flow etc. at
different branches of system is used to collect data and then can be used in
calculation for evaluating different parameters. A chiller is connected
to the system to cool down the hot fluid immediately and study the thermal
characteristics of heating as well as cooling.
B.4. Thermal Energy Storage System
This system
has been designed to perform TES related experiment by using PCM materials. As
there are several types of PCM, the system has been designed to perform
experiment with at least two PCM separately. Provision is also kept to examine
the combine (known as cascading) effect of two PCMs in thermal energy storage.
To visualize the phase changes in the material another set of arrangement are
there in the system.
B.5. Solar Cooker Trainer
