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Advanced Thermal Energy

SKU# RE9584

The Advanced Thermal Energy teaching solution offers students a comprehensive modular setup to explore various solar thermal energy transformation technologies at a laboratory scale. The system includes multiple solar collector types, such as a parabolic reflector and absorber tube, which can be operated with or without the included pump. It also features CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) technology and a Peltier element for direct conversion of thermal energy into electricity. Experiments cover core thermodynamic principles, including heat exchange, heat radiation absorption, and convective heat flow.

Learning Objectives:

  • Absorptivity and reflectivity of different materials
  • Focusing of light by a Fresnel lens
  • Thermal convection and layering
  • Thermal conduction
  • Thermal insulation
  • Solar thermal collector with pump circulation
  • Solar thermal collector with thermosiphon circulation
  • Variation of the flow speed
  • Collector circuit with heat exchanger
  • Collector circuit with paraffin heat reservoir
  • Parabolic trough collector with pump cycle
  • Defocusing
  • Qualitative demonstration of the functional principle
  • Investigating the thermoelectric generator
  • Quantitative determination of the electrical power

(Curriculum available online with the renewables range is a sample. Full contents on the workbook will be supplied upon purchase)

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Advanced Thermal Energy

REF: CP3985

The Advanced Thermal Energy teaching solution offers students a comprehensive modular setup to explore various solar thermal energy transformation technologies at a laboratory scale.

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