TB-220726-V-208 Tracking Parabolic Trough Collector Training System Educational Equipment Renewable 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