8-12 July 2019
Polokwane
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
Deadline for papers for the conference proceedings is 15 August 2019

Experimental validation of the hot mirror system

10 Jul 2019, 11:20
20m
Protea The Ranch Hotel (Polokwane)

Protea The Ranch Hotel

Polokwane

Oral Presentation Track F - Applied Physics Applied Physics

Speaker

Dr phil ferrer (wits)

Description

Solar receivers in solar trough installations are crucial components for transferring the incident solar radiation to a working fluid as heat, which can be used for industrial applications or electricity generation. Losses as thermal radiation dominate at high temperature and must be minimised in an efficient system. Conventionally, this is achieved via a selective coating on the absorber pipe, but a different approach used by us is to coat the glass sleeve with a heat mirror substance to quench radiation losses. Such a system can display numerous advantages. In this presentation, I will talk about the theory behind the heat mirror, how it is implemented in a simulation and how experimental results have validated this idea.

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Primary author

Dr phil ferrer (wits)

Co-author

Mr Khaled Mohamad (Witwatersrand University)

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