Solar collectors. Technical report No. 1, 5 September 1978-5 March 1979

Technical Report · Fri Apr 27 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:236855

Baum, B; Gage, M

A broad information search was carried out in four areas: glazings, housing materials, acrylic coatings, etching processes and AR coatings. An extensive list of all (known) U. S. transparent polymers was developed as well as tables of plastic, ceramic and metallic materials that could conceivably function as a housing. In addition, a compilation was made of commercially available solvent and water base acrylic coatings for use as a UV protective coating for the glazing. Eighteen transparent polymers were chosen as possible glazings and twelve materials (plastic and wood) as possible housings and exposed in the Weather Ometer as tensile bars and for the glazings as disks for optical transmission.These same materials were also exposed on our roof to monitor soiling. A variety of solvent and water base acrylics were selected as protective coatings and ordered. Two commercial films - Tedlar 20 and Halar 500 - with strong absorption in the Uv and two commercial films containing UV absorbers - Tedlar UT and Korad 2OlR - were laminated by several different processes to four promising glazing materials: polyvinyl fluoride (Tedlar), polymethyl methacrylate (Plexiglass), cross linked ethylene/vinyl acetate and thermoplastic polyester (Lumar). A variety of etching processes were briefly explored and AR coating studies started on the above four glazing films.

• Research Organization: Springborn Labs., Inc., Enfield, CT (United States)
• OSTI ID: 236855
• Report Number(s): AD-A--302531/9/XAB; ALO--539-T1; CNN: Contract EM-78-C-045359
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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GLAZING MATERIALS
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RESINS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
TEDLAR
TENSILE PROPERTIES
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION