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** Commercially available parabolic concentrated solar food cooker for camping | ** Commercially available parabolic concentrated solar food cooker for camping | ||
** DIY parabolic concentrated solar water heater<ref name="George's Workshop">{{cite web |url=https://georgesworkshop.blogspot.ca/p/solar-thermal.html | ** DIY parabolic concentrated solar water heater<ref name="George's Workshop">{{cite web |url=https://georgesworkshop.blogspot.ca/p/solar-thermal.html|title=George's Workshop|}}</ref> | ||
** Industrial parabolic concentrator farms to power steam engines (like the one I saw on "the Cosmos") | ** Industrial parabolic concentrator farms to power steam engines (like the one I saw on "the Cosmos") | ||
* Flat plate collector | * Flat plate collector | ||
** DIY flat plate solar collector | ** DIY flat plate solar collector <ref name="George's Workshop"/> | ||
** Commercially available flat plate solar collector for home use | ** Commercially available flat plate solar collector for home use | ||
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Revision as of 01:43, 19 January 2017
An old water heater was donated to my high school's pre-engineering class. After watching an episode of "The Cosmos," in which a farm of parabolic solar concentrators were used to heat water in order to power a steam engine that irrigated water, I was inspired to recycle the old water heater and turn it into a concentrated solar water heater.
Project goal
Recycle an old household water heater and an old school chair and turn it into a solar water heater
Project steps:
- Research solar heater designs
- Model full scale design
- Model and build a 3-D printed small scale prototype
- Test effectiveness of design based on prototype
- Build full scale solar concentrator
Research
Before starting to design my concentrated solar water heater I researched what some other people hade made.
There were two main designs I found:
- Parabolic concentrator
- Commercially available parabolic concentrated solar food cooker for camping
- DIY parabolic concentrated solar water heater[1]
- Industrial parabolic concentrator farms to power steam engines (like the one I saw on "the Cosmos")
- Flat plate collector
- DIY flat plate solar collector [1]
- Commercially available flat plate solar collector for home use
George's Workshop solar thermal page
Design
=Prototype
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Costs
Item | Cost |
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plastic filament | free |
3" pvc pipe | free |
water heater | free |
chair legs | free |
smaller glass tube | $7.20 |
larger glass tube | $8.30 |
reflective mylar film | $11.00 |
Results and Discussion
Your discussion.
Next steps
The next steps.
Contact details
pjmayvil@mtu.edu