Abstract
The stainless steel flat plate solar collector is a new type of collector that has a longer lifespan in high-temperature and high-humidity environments. When using stainless steel as the base material of the collector, the microchannel structure is typically employed to increase the heat transfer area and compensate for the lack of heat transfer coefficient of stainless steel. However, the shape of the channel section in microchannel structures affects the flow resistance of the heat transfer medium. This article presented the equation for the optimal feature size of the channel, obtained through fluid theory analysis of the stainless steel flat plate collector. The study analyzed the impact of different section parameters on the flow distribution and pressure drop characteristics of the medium in the channel through numerical simulation. The results showed that for a certain inlet flow rate, the cross-sectional geometry of the microchannel heat-absorbing plate determined the parameters such as the type of core cross-section, the degree of wall urgency, and the geometrical length of the microchannel, which in turn affected the distribution of the fluid in the flow channel and the energy loss. The optimal thermal performance of the stainless steel collector was observed when the width of the micro-channel was 8.7 mm and the corrugation height of the tube group was 3.00 mm.
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