Study on Effect of Number of Transparent Covers and Refractive Index on Performance of Solar Water Heater
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...Therefore, the rays change from visible range to infrared range to which the glass acts as opaque resulting in low solar radiation transmission [13]....
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...this absorption, reflection, and transmissivity of solar radiation through the transparent cover reduces the transmissivityabsorptivity(τα) product[13]....
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...Akhtar and Mullick [8] studied the effect of absorption of solar radiation in glass cover....
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...Khoukhi and Maruyama [6] calculated the instantaneous efficiency of solar collector in steady state by dividing the energy that reaches the absorber by the radiative heat flux at the outside surface of the glass cover and compared with the classical approach in which the top loss coefficient U t is assumed to be a linear function of the temperature difference between the plate and the surroundings....
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...Khoukhi and Maruyama [6] calculated the instantaneous efficiency of solar collector in steady state by dividing the energy that reaches the absorber by the radiative heat flux at the outside surface of the glass cover and compared with the classical approach in which the top loss coefficient 𝑈 𝑡 is assumed to be a linear function of the temperature difference between the plate and the surroundings....
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