Solar collector panel and energy shield

Patent · Tue Jan 03 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6886821

Garrison, J D

A glass, evacuated, solar collector panel, formed by a mirrored bottom sheet, structured in a series of parallel linear troughs, each approximately an ideal concentrating surface and terminating at opposite ends in approximately perpendicular linear concentrating troughs, and a top window sheet. The top and bottom sheets being joined to provide a vacuum envelope. A solar selective absorbing tube network having an input and output passing through the vacuum envelope, fixed intermediate the top and bottom sheet in the vacuum. The tube network including a plurality of parallel longitudinal tube members terminating at opposite ends in respective manifold tubes. Each tube member and manifold tubes positioned at the approximate concentration point of such series of parallel troughs and opposite troughs, respectively. Such solar collector panel also serving as an energy shield by having low transmittance of heat and radiant energy of visible and infrared wavelengths.

• Assignee: EDB-84-099360
• Patent Number(s): US 4423718
• OSTI ID: 6886821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
141000* -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
EVACUATED COLLECTORS
EVACUATED TUBE COLLECTORS
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUIDS
HEAT TRANSFER
HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS
INFRARED RADIATION
MECHANICS
OPERATION
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIANT HEAT TRANSFER
RADIATIONS
SHIELDS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR CONCENTRATORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR REFLECTORS
SPECTRALLY SELECTIVE SURFACES
SURFACES
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
THERMAL SHIELDS
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
VISIBLE RADIATION