Consider an idealized flat-plate solar collector with no conduction or convection losses, and with insolation 1000W/m 2

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Consider an idealized flat-plate solar collector with no conduction or convection losses, and with insolation 1000W/m2 incident at an angle of 45 from the vertical. Assume that the collector is horizontal and is covered with a pane of glass transparent to incoming radiation but opaque to outgoing (IR) radiation. The glass is kept at 300 K by the external environment. Compute the temperature of the absorber in radiative equilibrium. Recompute the temperature if the absorber is coated with a paint that modifies its emissivity in the IR to ε ≅ 0.2. 

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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