Property and performance requirements for thermotropic layers to prevent overheating in an all polymeric flat-plate collector

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 614-620

  Wallner, Gernot M ^a   Resch, Katharina ^b   Hausner, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^c AEE Arbeitsgemeinschaft ERNEUERBARE ENERGIE   (Austria)

Author keywords

All polymeric solar collector; Modeling; Overheating protection; Thermotropic layer

Indexed keywords

POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALL-POLYMERIC SOLAR COLLECTORS; OVERHEATING PROTECTION; SOLAR TRANSMITTANCE; THERMOTROPIC LAYERS;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

EID: 40849101458     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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