Effect of Installation of Solar Collector on Performance of Balcony Split Type Solar Water Heaters

Table 2

Parameters of the solar water heaters.

Items	Parameters
	Solar water heater with flat-plate collector	Solar water heater with all-glass evacuated tubular collector
Aperture area of the collector (m^2)	1.325	1.317
	0.76
(kJ/hr·m^2·K)	15
Assemble angle of collector (degrees)	0~90	0~90
Distance between water inlet and water outlet of collector (m)	0.86
Distance between water outlet of collector and tank bottom (m)	0.14~1.34
Length of cycle pipeline (m)	2~4.5	2~4.5
Heat loss coefficient of cycle pipeline (kJ/hr·m^2·K)	0.1	0.1
Tank volume (m^3)	0.12	0.12
Total heat loss coefficient (kJ/hr·K)	5.0