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Solar collector unit

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7150704
A solar collector unit is described including a corrugated absorber element coated with a reflectively selective coating; a plurality of thin, low mass, low thermal conductivity, thermal isolating elements for supporting the absorber element; and an insulation medium spaced from and generally parallel to the absorber element and disposed on a first side of the absorber element; a reflector surface carried on said insulation medium between said first side and the medium; and an inner transparent insulating sheet spaced from and generally parallel to the absorber element disposed on the second side of the absorber element for transmitting solar radiation to the absorber element and suppressing heat loss.
Assignee:
DIY-Sol, Inc.
Patent Number(s):
US 4062346
OSTI ID:
7150704
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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