Laboratory investigation into thermal response of asphalt pavements as solar collector by application of small-scale slabs

Category: Transient Plane Source

Author(s): Chen Mingyu, Wu Shaopeng, Zhang Jizhe

Keywords: Asphalt Pavement, Flow Rate, Solar Collectors, Temperature, Thermal Conductivity, TPS Technique, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method

Abstract: The ability of asphalt as a solar collector is studied with the help of the transient plane source (TPS) technique. Tubes were embedded into the asphalt slab and were used to circulate water, which collected the heat from the asphalt slabs.

Reference: Applied Thermal Engineering, 31, 10 (2011) 1582-1587

DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.01.028

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