Introduction

• Solar energy concentrating collectors: a means of obtaining domestic and small

scale industrial energy.

• Advantages and uses of concentrating collectors

•Its geometric shape and mode

of operation

• Factors affecting the use of

this technology in a particular
locality.
 Literature Review
• Guoying et al (2009) investigated the effect of
the weather on the DX-SAHP in China
• Adsten et al (2001) studied the influence of
climate and location on solar collector
performances in Sweden
• Lund (1985) considered the effect of weather
on thermal performance of SHW system in
Finland
• Anderson and Furbo (2008) looked into the
influence of weather variations on SH systems
in Denmark
• Nasir (2004) tested a concentrating collector
in Minna, Nigerian weather conditions
 Materials and Methods
•LOCATION: Ogbomoso;8°7′60″N and
4°16′0″E, Southwestern Nigeria
•THE TEST RIG: The parabolic dish aperture,
the receiver, the tracking mechanism, the
measuring instruments and the supporting
structures.
•The experimental set up and procedure
•The numerical simulation:
Q   I A
Useful heat: useful opt b a    Ashell  T 4
rec  Tamb    UArec  Trec  Tamb  
4

Optical efficiency:  o   g  m r f 4r  4 1 , 2 

Combined heat loss: Qloss   Ashell  Trec  Tamb    UArec  Trec  Tamb  
Quseful
Overall thermal efficiency:   I A
b a
The Parabolic Concentrating
Collector and its Thermal
Performance 500

T e m p e r a tu r e r e q u i r e d ( C )
450
Boiling
Frying
400
Baking
Roasting
Grilling
350
Parabolic Dish average temp
300

250

200

150

100

50

E s tim a te d a v e ra g e te m p e ra tu r e ( C )
0
Boiling Frying Baking Roasting Grilling Parabolic Dish
500
average temp
Stills(Water purification)
450 Desalination
Pasteurization
400 Air heating (Process heat)
Process steam
Absorption chillers
350
Mechanical refrigeration
Parabolic dish average temperature
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
Stills(Water Desalination Pasteurization Air heating Process steam Absorption Mechanical Parabolic dish
purification) (Process heat) chillers refrigeration average
temperature
500
Egg incubation
450 Chicken brooding
Greenhouses
400 Manure drying
Crop drying
Temperature required (C)

350
Parabolic dish average temperature
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
Egg incubation Chicken brooding Greenhouses Manure drying Crop drying Parabolic dish average
temperature
 Results
1000
Rainy day
Clear day
900 Hot day
Cool & Cloudy day
Less Windy day
800
Windy day

700

600
Temperature (C)

500 1000

400 900

300 800

700
200

600
100

Solar radiation (W/m2)

500
0
10.00. 10.30. 11.00. 11.30. 12.00. 12.30. 13.00. 13.30. 14.00. 14.30. 15.00. 15.30. 16.00.
Solar time (Hours) 400

Rainy day
300 Clear day
Hot day
Cool & Cloudy day
200 Less windy day
Windy day

100

0
10.00. 10.30. 11.00. 11.30. 12.00. 12.30. 13.00. 13.30. 14.00. 14.30. 15.00. 15.30. 16.00.
Solar Time (Hours)
 900

Rainy day
800 Clear day
Hot day
700 Cool and cloudy day

Results (Contd.)
Less windy day
600 Windy day

500

Total Heat loss (W)

1400
Rainy day Clear day 400

Hot day Cool & Cloudy day

1200 300
Less windy day Windy day
200
1000

100

800
0
seful heat (W)

10.00. 10.30. 11.00. 11.30. 12.00. 12.30. 13.00. 13.30. 14.00. 14.30. 15.00. 15.30. 16.00.
Solar time (Hours)
600
U

70

400
60

200
50

0 40
Efficiency (%)

10.00. 10.30. 11.00. 11.30. 12.00. 12.30. 13.00. 13.30. 14.00. 14.30. 15.00. 15.30. 16.00.
Solar Time (Hours)
30
Rainy day
Clear day
20
Hot day
Cool & Cloudy day
10 Less windy day
Windy day

0
10.00. 10.30. 11.00. 11.30. 12.00. 12.30. 13.00. 13.30. 14.00. 14.30. 15.00. 15.30. 16.00.
Solar time (Hours)
 Conclusions
• Findings show higher values for the hot, sunny and
windy days than for cool and cloudy days
• Solar radiation and level of clearness of the sky affected
the thermal performance of the test rig
• The winds had inconsistent effect on the total heat loss
• The level of hotness/coolness of the day had
considerable effect on the useful heat gained by the
collector
• Precipitation also reduced the level of the collector’s
thermal performance.
 References
 Adsten, M., Peres, B., Wackelgard, E., (2001) The influence of

climate and location on collector performance. Renewable Energy

25, 499-509.
 Anderson, E., and Furbo, S., (2009) Theoretical variations of the
thermal performance of different solar collectors and solar combi
systems as function of the varying yearly weather conditions in
Denmark. Solar Energy 83, 552-565.
 Guoying, X., Zhang X., Yang L. and Deng, S. (2009) Performance
of a solar-air source heat pump system for water heating on
different weather conditions, retrieved on 11th November from
http://www.ieeexplore.com.
 Lund, P.D., (1985) On the effect of solar radiation variations on
solar heating system performances. Energy Research 9, pp53-
64.
 Nasir, A. (2004) Design Construction and Experimental Study of
the Thermal Performance of a Parabolic Cylindrical Trough Solar
Air Heater, A.U. Journal of Tech., Vol. 8, No1,pp.21–26.