Sentences with phrase «radiation on a collector»

Vertical south facing collectors get automatic protection during the summer because the summer sun is much higher in the sky, and provides less effective radiation on the collectors.

Not exact matches

Since no one on the planet has ever been able to experimentally demonstrate a working backradiation collector, answer this question: If those 333W / m ² of backradiation are a real transfer of thermal energy, then why can't you collect it like you can collect the 161W / m ² of solar radiation?»

I use the pyranometer to record solar radiation on the front face of solar heating collectors, so the pyranometer is mounted in the same plane as the collector glazing.

Based on inputs that include collector area, orientation, and solar radiation, it provides collector incidence angle, radiation input to the collector and other outputs.

This program estimates the solar radiation that will fall on a planar solar collector surface as a function of the collector orientation.

After re-reading some of Steve Baer's material on the «Double Play» solar heater and cooler, and the FSEC's work on radiation home cooling, I got to wondering if the same collector that I prototyped for the simple pool heating might also be put into service as a night time radiator to cool water.