Authors: Hamza Al-Tahaineh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48103/jjeci612023
JORDANIAN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (JJECI)
Pages: 1-6
Abstract
Concentrated collectors offer a broad variety of solar energy uses, including heating, cooling, power production, and
water desalination. This study was conducted to construct and test a concentrated parabolic solar dish water heater. The aperture size of the dish is 4.556m2 , and a copper absorber has a surface area of 0.2278m2 , a volume of 0.015m3
,and a concentrating ratio of 20. The water is heated up to 120°C at a solar radiation intensity of 700W/m2 and a 20°C ambient temperature. The absorber’s stagnation temperature reached 246°C in roughly 1500 seconds. The thermal
efficiency of the system was found to be 46%.
Paper type: Research paper
Keywords: dish solar collector, water heating, solar heater, stagnation temperature, concentration. Citation: Al-Tahaineh, H. “Performance Investigation of a Concentrated Solar Dish for Heating Applications”, Jordanian Journal of Engineering and
Chemical Industries, Vol. 6, No.1, pp: 1-6 (2023).
