There are various types of solar water heating systems available in the commercial market to fulfill different customer's demand, such as flat plate collector, concentrating collector, evacuated tube collector and integrated collector...
moreThere are various types of solar water heating systems available in the commercial market to fulfill different customer's demand, such as flat plate collector, concentrating collector, evacuated tube collector and integrated collector storage. A cost effective cum easy fabricated V-trough solar water heater system using forced circulation system is proposed. Reason behind the selection of v-trough is that it is not only economical but also heat transfer rate is increased by positioning the glass plate at angle of 60degree. And also base plate collector maintaining maximum absorptivity due to given black coating. The radiation which incident on the V-trough are reflected back inside the entire setup and makes less radiation losses. Integrating the solar absorber with the easily fabricated V-trough reflector can improve the performance of solar water heater system. In this paper, optical analysis along with experimental study and cost analysis of the stationary V-trough solar water heater system are presented in details. The experimental result has shown very promising results in both optical efficiency of V-trough reflector and the overall thermal performance of the solar water heater.