Abstract
Experimental thermal efficiencies for the distributed flow, subatmospheric pressure, flat plate solar collector are reported for a wide range of environmental and operational conditions, and for corrugated Filon and glass covers. Efficiencies for near normal solar incidence are correlated with a parameter formed from the difference between inlet fluid and air temperatures divided by incident solar energy. A mathematical model based on heat transfer concepts applicable to the collector yielded efficiencies which are in close agreement with the corresponding experimental efficiencies when the experimental measurements are inserted into the model.
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