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Data for Design and commissioning of a virtual image solar simulator for testing thermal collectors

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Moss, Roger W., Shire, G. S. F., Eames, Philip C., Henshall, Paul, Hyde, T. and Arya, Farid (2017) Data for Design and commissioning of a virtual image solar simulator for testing thermal collectors. [Dataset]

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Abstract

A solar simulator has been designed and built for testing prototype (0.5×0.5 m) flat plate thermal collectors. An internally reflecting light tube generates multiple virtual images of the four halogen floodlights to ensure uniform illumination. Ray-tracing simulations were used to choose the tube dimensions and maximum allowable clearance. Illumination measurements agree well with these predictions.

The visible & near IR spectrum appears to follow a black body curve. In the absence of a “cold sky” IR filter there is a secondary, long wavelength IR spectral component that causes heating of the cover glass on a solar flat plate collector. The cover glass temperature can be maintained at typical outdoor levels using a cooling fan. The design would be well suited to LED illumination.

Simulation of solar collector response to this spectrum shows that an efficiency based on pyranometer readings is approximately 1% higher than would be obtained with an AM1.5 spectrum.

Item Type: Dataset
Subjects: T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering
Type of Data: Matlab code, figure and data files
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Solar collectors -- Research, Solar energy -- Research, Heat storage devices
Publisher: University of Warwick, School of Engineering
Official Date: 23 November 2017
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23 November 2017Published
30 June 2017Created
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Date fromDate to
February 2014July 2017
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Description:

This code runs in Matlab r2017a. Typically a script file will either produce a single figure or is designed to be run in sections, producing one graph after another. The function files are almost always called by script files.

Date of first compliant deposit: 23 November 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 23 November 2017
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
EP/K009915/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
EP/K010107/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
EP/K009230/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
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DepositorMoss, Roger58697

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