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TB-220726-V-208 Tracking Parabolic Trough Collector Training System Didactic Equipment Clean Energy Training Equipment

TB-220726-V-208 Tracking Parabolic Trough Collector Training System Didactic Equipment Clean Energy Training Equipment

The System Should Cover the Following Training Objectives:

Investigation of focusing of solar radiation with a parabolic trough mirror

Study of optical concentration factor

Familiarization with direct normal irradiance (DNI)

Familiarization with sensor-based sun tracking

Learning about astronomical sun tracking

Conversion of radiant energy into heat

Study of losses in thermal solar collectors

Illustraion of efficiency curves

Minimum Technical Specifications Required (like or better than):

PLC unit with touch screen for control and data acquisition

Thermal solar collector

─Parabolic mirror with trough length: 1.3m, aperture width: 1m, mirror surface: 1.4m2 and focal length: 0.3m

─Absorber with selectively coated absorber tubes with U-tube line for heat transfer fluid and double walled glass shell to reduce heat loss

─Solar circuit with adjustable solar pump

2-axis sun tracking with gear motors

Hot water circuit

─10x plate heat exchanger: 2.9kW each

─Buffer tank: 65L

The collector should be able to align vertically via a pivoted suspension

Built-in direct normal irradiance sensor

Built-in magnetometer and accelerometer for astronomical alignment

4x Temperature sensor: up to 150°C each

Flow rate sensor: 25 to 315L/h

Pressure sensor: up to 5.5bar

Built-in LAN/WLAN interface to enable connection of many end devices for operation, control and screen mirroring of the experiments

The system is placed on a rigid trolley with four castor wheels

Artificial Light Source Unit, 8x 1000W with its own trolley

PC Core i7, DVD+/-RW, 8GB RAM, 1TB Hard Disk Drive, Optical Mouse, Multimedia Keyboard, Monitor (21″) LED

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