Performance of evacuated tube solar collectors at high temperature differentials
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Abstract
Integration of renewable energy into industrial process streams is becoming increasingly important as concerns arise surrounding reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Superheated steam (SS) is a valuable process medium, both for its capacity to carry energy and to remove moisture from biological materials, which stands to benefit from integration of solar energy since the only input required is high-quality heat. Though solar energy represents an abundant resource, its exploitation is currently very limited. Evacuated tube solar collectors (ETSC) are capable of delivering energy at temperatures in excess of 200 C, and were evaluated for their feasibility for integration into a SS process stream. Experimental results showed that SS could be generated using ETSC at temperatures up to 178 C at an efficiency of 8.95%, with efficiency shown to decrease with increasing temperature differential. Further investigation indicated that operation of the ETSC at such high temperature differentials may have a detrimental effect on the materials used in their construction. After 28 loading cycles, component failure began to occur at temperatures of 178 C. Conclusions drawn from this study were that while ETSC are capable of producing high-quality SS, they are not feasible for independent integration into an industrial process stream due to low efficiency and component failure.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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