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Electronic Resource
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May 1974
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Library's review
ABSTRACT:
The operation of all types of solar energy collectors depends upon the setting up of an equilibrium between the incoming radiant energy and the outgoing energy which comprises the various collector losses as well as the useful components. It is customary to group the useful component and
The operation of all types of solar energy collectors depends upon the setting up of an equilibrium between the incoming radiant energy and the outgoing energy which comprises the various collector losses as well as the useful components. It is customary to group the useful component and
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the losses together as a function of absorber temperature and thus distinguish them from the incoming radiant energy. The present author is inclined towards the alternative method of grouping viz. to consider both the incoming and outgoing radiative components together and distinct from the remaining outgoing components. The advantage of this alternative method lies chiefly in the fact that the two radiative mechanisms have much in common physically as well as analytically and this enables one to visualize the processes of optimization more readily. Show Less