Types of collectors used in solar power installation
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Solar power
• Among all the renewable energies, solar is the most preferable which can be used from small scale to large scale industries.
• With the solar panels, the sun power is easily tracked and they are utilized even for charging the cell phone, dryer, fans, water heater, etc…
• Solar water heater is the popular product which is employed in houses since many years
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Collectors In Solar Energy
• The solar thermal heaters are used to trap the sun power falling on the panels.
• It was the electromagnetic radiation utilized for the further process.
• The collectors used in the solar is of many types and they are installed based on the requirement and applications.
• The list of types are shown in the below lists.
Flat plate collectors
• The collectors resemble flat plate with dark color and they are very well insulated.
• Heat transfer fluid is made to go around the copper and silicon tube.
• The plates used as the absorber is coated with aluminum and copper along with the coatings to retain the heat.
• This flat plate is adoptable to different types of absorbers.
• This plate has more life span and are inexpensive compared to evacuated type.
Evacuated Tube collectors
• This is made up of the insulated glass tubes and the centre is filled with the copper pipes.
• The water is allowed flow through the pipes which is then heated by the sun power collected by the collectors.
• This is the efficient type among all the types of collectors used.
• This is also most expensive as the durability deserves the cost.
Solar Air Collectors
• This is the economical type of solar collectors, which has the absorber to capture the sun’s radiation and pass it to the air.
• This is available in both glazed and unglazed type.
• This type of collectors are used for ventilation, space heating, process heating and cooling applications.
• They are implemented for industrial and commercial applications.
Solar Bowl Collectors
• This is the parabolic dish with the fixed mirror, with the tracking receiver.
• This shape with the fixed mirrors tracks the sun power to the large extent.
• This type of collectors are used for the large scale purpose and the this is very expensive.
• This type replaced the number of mirrors used to capture the sun power.
• These are list of few collectors used in the solar energy.
• Solar power cannot be trapped without the collectors, thus this has the core role.
• Such solar collectors are chosen and they are utilized based on the application and requirement.
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