A novel thermal water pump for circulating water in a solar water heating system
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Author list: Roonprasang N., Namprakai P., Pratinthong N.
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2009
Journal: Applied Thermal Engineering (1359-4311)
Volume number: 29
Issue number: #
Start page: 1598
End page: 1605
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 1359-4311
eISSN: 1873-5606
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
This research purpose was to perform a parametric study of a novel thermal water pump well fitted in a simulated solar water heating system (SWHS). The SWHS was composed of a heating tank (HT), a hot water storage tank (ST) and an overhead tank (OT). The HT together with a specially designed valve act as a novel thermal water pump that gets power from hot water vapor and air pressure produced by a built-in electric heater in order to transfer heat from the HT to ST. The general operation of this pump has four stages for each cycle: heating, water circulating, vapor circulating and water supplying. The discharge water heads were varied with an increment of 0.25 m from 0.75 to 3 m. According to the experiment, it was found that the pump could operate at an average HT temperature of about 80-95 ฐC leading to 70-80 ฐC ST temperatures and 20-35 pumping cycles and consumed 17 MJ energy input during 9-h period. The overall thermal efficiency of the SWHS was 33-42% and the mean pump efficiency was about 0.005-0.011% depending upon the discharge heads. ฉ 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Parametric study, Water circulation
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