THE USE OF SQUARE AND FIN-SHAPED PIPE HEAT TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF FLAT PLATE SOLAR COLLECTOR

Abstract

Based on the review of references from journals, and review of the literature supporting
this research, state of art the underlying issue of solar collectorsin particular types of flat
plate solar collectorhow to improve performance such as efficiency the collector can be
increased maximum.In improving this performancehistory researchers perform a variety
of ways, that ismodification, add fixtures, test material used etc.From the results of
research related to the problem of the increase in performanceuse of hosepipes connected
with the use of heat pipe absorber all round. This raises a hypothesis in which the surface
directly exposed to hot sun or in contact with the absorbera little part of the arch so that
the surface area too small conduction, if used pipes square shape is expected to occur heat
absorption is better because of surface conduction wider and coupled with a fin heat sink.
Based on the above, the underlying issue is the increase in performance generated in the
form of heating efficiency, is to examine how they affect the use of heat pipe square and
added a fin on the top to the increased performance of the solar collector.

The results of this study found that the performance of solar collector that uses square
pipe equipped with fins better than solar collector with a round pipe