Commissariat a L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives

Sophia Antipolis Energie Developpement

Christian Lenôtre

Jean-Antoine Gruss

Alain Marechal

Michel Wohrer

Didier Rossi

A set of heat pipes for solar collectors is provided. The set includes a plurality of heat pipes, each heat pipe being suitable for being laid out in a respective solar collector, and including a heat pipe fluid, a first sheet and a second sheet locally merged with each other and delimiting a reservoir. The reservoir containing the heat pipe fluid extends over a hot part for evaporating the heat pipe fluid and a cold part for condensing the heat pipe fluid, and is formed by an interstice between the two sheets. The reservoirs of at least two heat pipes are delimited by a same first sheet and a same second sheet.

Set of heat pipes for solar collectors

A solar collector () includes: an outer tube () of circular cross-section, closed at one of its ends, an absorption layer () arranged inside the outer tube (), for absorbing solar radiation (Rs), and a heat pipe () including a hot part () laid out inside the outer tube (), a cold part () arranged outside the outer tube (), and a reservoir () containing a heat pipe fluid () and extending over the hot part () and the cold part (). The outer tube () is hermetically closed around the heat pipe () at the other of its ends, a vacuum being formed inside said outer tube (). For the hot part () of the heat pipe (), the reservoir () is applied at least locally against the absorption layer ().

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