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Energy is one of the building blocks of modern society. Solar energy is a form of renewable energy which is available abundantly and collected unreservedly. In this paper, the application of solar energy using parabolic trough is analyzed. An experimental setup was developed to investigate the performance of the parabolic trough. Measurements of total direct radiation on the plane of the collector, ambient temperature, wind speed, water flow rate, and inlet and outlet temperatures of the water inside the absorber tube were measured and employed in studying the performance of the parabolic trough. A data logger and a computer were employed for data acquisition and the outputs of the experiment are illustrated with the help of graphs plotted using the data import-wizard data import-wizard of the data logger and MATLAB software. Finally, the efficiency which is used as a measure of performance is calculated and the experimental results are compared with the results obtained from the mathematical model.
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Messele, Y., Assefa, A. (2015). Thermal Analysis, Design and Experimental Investigation of Parabolic Trough Solar Collector. In: Abraham, A., Krömer, P., Snasel, V. (eds) Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 334. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13572-4_20
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