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How The Water Temperature Will Be Increased When It Exiting A Pipe Of The Collector

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1.2 Aims
According to the flat plate collectors that were install on houses in Cyprus, the aim of this investigate project is to produce several different ideas of how the water temperature will be increased when it exiting a pipe of the collector. Also some tests will be made in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to come across with the best idea and an efficiency curve will be generated.
1.3 Objectives To learn how to use Solidworks in 3D To understand and find out how Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code(ANSYS/Fluent) works To understand the theory of solar thermal collectors To develop the heat losses and the efficiency of each modified pipe

1.4 Project Methodology

From the mentioned aim, to plot an efficiency curve of a modified flat plate collector pipe some steps should be made to achieve the aim: Review and analyse the existing technology, R&D specifications and new trends from reading journals, websites and text books

Find several modification ideas of flat plate collector pipes of how the temperature of water will rise more easily in a single pipe

The ideas will be incorporated into design using Solidworks (Soliworks student edition 2014)

Test the modified pipes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code (ANSYS/Fluent)

Find the difference of the input temperature and the output temperature of each modified pipe

Table will made to compare the temperature differences of each pipe and discuss which design modification produces the

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