Modeling Heat Flow In a Calorimeter Equipped With a Textured Solar Collector
- Author
- Jaworske, Donald A.
- Published
- [2001].
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- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators
- Allen, Bradley J.
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- Heat engines are being considered for generating electric power for minisatellite applications, particularly for those missions in high radiation threat orbits. To achieve this objective, solar energy must be collected and transported to the hot side of the heat engine. A solar collector is needed having the combined properties of high solar absorptance, low infrared emittance, and high thermal conductivity. To test candidate solar collector concepts, a simple calorimeter was designed, manufactured, and installed in a bench top vacuum chamber to measure heat flow. In addition, a finite element analysis model of the collector/calorimeter combination was made to model this heat flow. The model was tuned based on observations from the as-manufactured collector/calorimeter combination. In addition, the model was exercised to examine other collector concepts, properties, and scale up issues.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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- Document ID: 20020028407.
IECEC2001-TM-15.
36th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference; 29 Jul. - 2 Aug. 2001; Savannah, GA; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction
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