Solar Collectors: Experiments, Labs, Science Fair Projects, Background Information

Solar Collectors K-12 Experiments, Labs, and Background Information For Science Fair Projects, Labs, Lesson Plans and Class Activities For Elementary School, Middle School, High School and College Students and Teachers

Solar Collector Experiments and Labs

Definition

A solar collector is a device that collects sunlight energy in order to provide heat for electricity generation or water and space heating.

Background Information

Solar thermal collector [View Resource]
Solar water heating [View Resource]
Solar air heat [View Resource]
Renewable heat [View Resource]
Concentrated solar power [View Resource]
Parabolic trough [View Resource]
Solar power tower [View Resource]
Glossary of Solar Heating Terms [View Resource]

K-12 Experiments, Labs, Lesson Plans and Science Fair Projects
Solar Water Heaters & Collectors Science Fair Projects and Experiments [View Experiment]
Which Passive Solar Collector Absorbs the Most Heat? [View Experiment]
Methods of collecting and storing solar energy [View Experiment]
Measuring Collector Performance and Efficiency [View Experiment]
A simple Solar Water Heater [View Experiment]
Construct Serpentine Collectors [View Experiment]
Build Your Own Solar Water Heating Panel [View Experiment]
Solar Flat Plate vs. Evacuated Tube Collectors [View Experiment]
Build a Solar Collector [View Experiment]
Build batch solar collectors, using different colors of plastic bags, to see which color heats water the best. [View Experiment]
Determining the efficiency of a solar collector as a function of the volume of water and the thermal insulation [View Experiment]
Efficiency of solar heaters and solar energy in different times of the day [View Experiment]
Science is Cool Experiments with simple solar collectors heating up water in plastic bags (page 59) [View Experiment]
Experimental Investigation of a New Solar Flat Plate Collector [View Experiment]
Experiments on solar adsorption refrigeration using zeolite and water [View Experiment]

College Experiments, Labs, Studies and Articles
Design of a solar collector experiment for an Undergraduate heat transfer lab [View Experiment]
Experimental results of using a parabolic trough solar collector for thermal treatment of crude oil [View Experiment]
Experiments on solar adsorption refrigeration using zeolite and water [View Experiment]

Theses and Dissertations
Feasibility of photovoltaic cells on a fixed mirror distributed focus solar bowl [View Thesis]

See Also
Solar Hot Water [View Experiment]
Solar Thermal Energy [View Experiment]

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Definition

Background Information

K-12 Experiments, Labs, Lesson Plans and Science Fair Projects

College Experiments, Labs, Studies and Articles

Theses and Dissertations

See Also