Transparent glass honeycomb structure for energy loss control. Progress report, April 1976--July 1977

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:6814099

Buchberg, H; Edwards, D K; Mackenzie, J D

Equipment was successfully designed, constructed, and used to fabricate thin corrugated sheet glass continuously utilizing a hot-rolling technique. Approximately 150 thin glass sheets, 12 in. x 3 in. x 0.012 in., were corrugated and made available for testing in a single-glazed solar collector with a liquid-cooled, nonselective black absorber. The analysis and computer program developed for the calculation of solar and infrared radiative transfer through tubular honeycomb was reviewed and revised for application to parallel plate and sinusoidal sheet honeycombs. Outdoor performance tests included the measurement of the solar transmittance of the glass honeycombs with and without a coverglass, instantaneous quasi-steady state solar conversion efficiency and daily integrated efficiency of experimental collectors.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA). School of Engineering and Applied Science
• OSTI ID: 6814099
• Report Number(s): SAN-1084-77/1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
141000* -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
BLACK COATINGS
COATINGS
COOLING
COVERINGS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENERGY LOSSES
FABRICATION
GLASS
GLAZING MATERIALS
HEAT LOSSES
HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES
INFRARED RADIATION
MATERIALS
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PLATES
RADIATIONS
RADIATIVE COOLING
SHEETS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
TESTING
TRANSMISSION