{"title":"PERFORMANCE OF LOW-COST SOLAR WATER HEATER","authors":"A. Ridwan, Ridwan Abdurrahman, A. Fudholi","doi":"10.37859/jst.v9i1.3761","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the performance of a low-cost solar water heater (SWH). The SWH consists of a solar collector with a simple flat plate thermosiphon and water tank. The solar collector has, a glass cover, painted black on an aluminium absorber plate, water pipes and the sides insulated. During the testing process, the temperatures in the SWH were recorded at 1-second intervals by using Advantech Software DAQ Navi Data Logger, which is connected to a laptop via USB-4718, 8-Channel Thermocouple Input Module. The results that the efficiency of the solar collector ranged from 5% to 23%, with an average of 16% at water flow rate of 0.0019 kg/s. In addition, the time required by low-cost SWH to heat the water in a tank of 20 liters to reach its maximum temperature of 48.3°C is 8 hours 36 minutes","PeriodicalId":17743,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Surya Teknika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jurnal Surya Teknika","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37859/jst.v9i1.3761","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study investigated the performance of a low-cost solar water heater (SWH). The SWH consists of a solar collector with a simple flat plate thermosiphon and water tank. The solar collector has, a glass cover, painted black on an aluminium absorber plate, water pipes and the sides insulated. During the testing process, the temperatures in the SWH were recorded at 1-second intervals by using Advantech Software DAQ Navi Data Logger, which is connected to a laptop via USB-4718, 8-Channel Thermocouple Input Module. The results that the efficiency of the solar collector ranged from 5% to 23%, with an average of 16% at water flow rate of 0.0019 kg/s. In addition, the time required by low-cost SWH to heat the water in a tank of 20 liters to reach its maximum temperature of 48.3°C is 8 hours 36 minutes