A preliminary study on heat pipe solar evacuated tube collector using nano fluid as a performance parameter for heat transfer enhancement.

Extracting clean Energy through different technologies and producing electricity has played a major role nowadays due to constant growing energy consumption because of increase in population as well as deteriorating effect on atmosphere due usage of fossil fuels. To have an efficient clean energy technology has become the necessity of time. Application of solar thermal energy as Solar cooker, Solar dryer, Solar Water Heater, Solar desalination etc, are widely used in industry and domestic applications. Among these different application of Solar Thermal Energy, Evacuated Tube Collectors are used extensively so far as it proposes less convection losses which arise in solar concentrators from the movement of air over hot receiver surfaces. It is found that use of nanofluid for the thermal performance enhancement of Evacuated tube collector using heat pipe significantly changed scenario of using ETC. With this paper various characteristics of using nano fluid with Evacuated tube collector has been critically reviewed for the thermal performance enhancement of ETC with effect of parameters like weight fraction, filling ratio, type of nano particle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]