The trainer can be used to demonstrate the principal aspects of solar thermal domestic water heating in a system with components used in real world applications. The heat then gets into the hot water circuit via a heat exchanger. Radiant energy is converted into heat in a commercially available flat collector and transferred to a heat transfer fluid in the solar circuit.
Learning Objectives/Experiments:
Determining the collector efficiency
Relationship between temperature difference and collector efficiency
Determining the net power
Familiarization with the functions of the flat collector and the solar circuit
Relationship between flow and net power.
