Analysis and simulation of thermal performance of a PTC with secondary reflector

In this paper, a numerical simulation of fluid flow and conjugate heat transfer in solar thermal parabolic trough collector (PTC) system is presented. The being carried out on prototype designed the Mechanical Laboratory order to analyze performance system. main objective compare with without secondary reflector (SR). PVSYST software used provide temporal values flux Laghouat city (ALGERIA). Solar density for four days different seasons have been taken. SolTrace code determine distribution absorber tube. equations tube are solved by using ANSYS-CFX CFD software. A comparison between two cases (traditional PTC reflector) same working (Therminol VP-1) out. obtained results show that practically seasons. Moreover, second better than ratio about 1.65.