Studies on Methods of Reducing Heat Losses from Flat Plate Solar Collectors.

摘要

Improvements to flat plate solar collectors for heating and cooling of buildings are evaluated by three parallel studies. The first study demonstrated that suppression of convective heat transfer by honeycomb panels is possible even when the panel is inclined from the horizontal. The second study resulted in a precise,simple equation for the free convective heat transfer through an inclined air layer. The third study examines the solar transmittance of a V-corrugated inner cover.