Solar collector apparatus and method

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1976-02-23

1978-02-21

Sprague, Kenneth W.

Stoves and furnaces

Heaters

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237 1A, F24J 302

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040747050

ABSTRACT:
A modular solar collector system and method for solar radiation with a collector assembly defining a fluid flow channel therein exposed to solar radiation; a heat transfer fluid for flowing down the fluid flow channel to be heated directly or indirectly by the solar radiation where the heat transfer fluid has a fluid vapor pressure differential between the maximum and minimum temperatures to which said heat transfer fluid is exposed during flow down the fluid flow channel of less than about 0.3 psia and/or defines a wetting angle with respect to said solar radiation absorbing surface of less than about 50.degree.; and means for supplying the heat transfer fluid to the upper end of the channel for the flow of the heat transfer fluid down the channel under the force of gravity to heat the transfer fluid.

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patent: 3390672 (1968-07-01), Snelling
patent: 3937208 (1976-02-01), Katz
patent: 3989031 (1976-11-01), Thomason et al.
A. V. Chechetkin, "High Temperature Heat Carriers," Chapter 7, Pergamon Press (1963).

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