Consider a flat-plate solar collector placed horizontally on the flat roof of a house. The collector is

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Consider a flat-plate solar collector placed horizontally on the flat roof of a house. The collector is 1.5 m wide and 4.5 m long, and the average temperature of the exposed surface of the collector is 42°C. Determine the rate of heat loss from the collector by natural convection during a calm day when the ambient air temperature is 8°C. Also, determine the heat loss by radiation by taking the emissivity of the collector surface to be 0.85 and the effective sky temperature to be - 15°C.

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Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences

ISBN: 978-0078027680

5th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Robert H. Turner, John M. Cimbala

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