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A flat-plate solar collector with high building integration was designed and prototyped. The experimentations showed that the performances of this solar collector can be improved. A numerical thermal model, developed in Matlab® environment using a finite difference model, was validated. Then, a modelling of the complete solar domestic hot water system (solar collector + water storage + piping) was realized. The performance of this system was calculated for various solar collector configurations such as the number and the position of the water pipes, air layer thickness, fluid flow rate, etc. Several solar fractions were used to implement this optimization procedure. An optimized solar collector structure is finally presented.
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The authors thank the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica and OSEO-ANVAR for their financial supports. This work was realized in the frame of the COST Action TU1205 on “Building Integration of Thermal Solar Systems (BISTS)”.
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Notton, G., Cristofari, C., Motte, F., Canaletti, JL. (2016). Performance Improvement in a BIST Water Collector: A Parametric Study. In: Sayigh, A. (eds) Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol II. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18215-5_74
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