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Vacuum solar collectors

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6971369

A solar collector, comprises: a tubular housing of radiation-transparent material hermetically closed at one end; a smaller-diameter tubular absorber having a radiation-absorbing surface, the absorber being coaxially disposed within the tubular housing and hermetically closed at one end; the opposite ends of the tubular housing and absorber being sealed together, and the space between the two being evacuated; and heat-extracting means for passing a heat-exchange medium through said opposite end of the tubular absorber into the interior thereof to extract heat therefrom.

Assignee:
TIC; ERA-03-044531; EDB-78-089136
Patent Number(s):
US 4069810
OSTI ID:
6971369
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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