Use of economical off-shelf vacuumware bottles (hot soup type) as solar evacuated tubes. Final technical report, 1 January 1981-31 July 1982

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6626972

Novinger, H E

Three air type solar collector modules using vacuum insulated bottles and three different absorbers were designed, built, and simultaneously tested for comparison of performance. One absorber was flat black paint on cylinders, one was black chrome on copper cylinders and one was ordinary dark brown house insulation known as rock wool. A liquid type solar collector was also designed, built, and tested, which employed similar components of the air type collectors except for painted cans inserted in the short vacuumware bottles serving as the evacuated-tubes. Similar tests were made of flat plate type solar collectors using similar absorbers. The results of these tests are presented.

• Research Organization: Novinger (Harry E.), Englewood, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG48-81R801010
• OSTI ID: 6626972
• Report Number(s): DOE/R8/01010-T1; ON: DE84015671
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Paper copy only, copy does not permit microfiche production
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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