Methods for reducing heat losses from flat plate solar collectors. Phase II.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hollands, K. G. T., author.

Raithby, G. D., author.

Unny, T. E., author.

Contributor:

University of Waterloo, issuing body.

United States. Department of Energy, sponsoring body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar collectors.

Heat--Transmission.

Heat.

solar collectors.

heat transmission.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 78 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ontario, Canada : University of Waterloo, March 1978.

Summary:

Improvements to flat plate solar collectors for heating and cooling of buildings were investigated through two parallel studies. The first study, which deals with the free convective heat loss from V-corrugated absorber plate to a plane glass cover, has shown that, for the same average spacing, the free convective heat loss is greater for a V-corrugated absorber plate than for a plane absorber plate. However, provided the average spacing is large enough, the amount of increase is slight. The second study, which deals with the free convective heat loss in a honeycomb solar collector in which the honeycomb consists of a set of horizontal partitions, or slits, has shown that provided the solar collector is tilted to near vertical, such a honeycomb gives equivalent or superior free convective loss suppression than does a square-celled honeycomb having the same amount of material. Correlation equations for the free convective heat loss are given for both studies.

Notes:

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (OSTI, viewed March 7, 2013).

"COO-2597-4."

"WRI Project No. 510-08."

"March, 1978."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-73).

Other Format:

Print version: Hollands, K. G. T. Methods for reducing heat losses from flat plate solar collectors.

Microfiche version: Methods for reducing heat losses from flat plate solar collectors.

OCLC:

873880220