The progress and prospect of middle/high temperature evacuated tubular solar collector

Bofeng Lee

Renewable Energy, 2001, vol. 24, issue 3, 539-544

Abstract: The all-glass evacuated solar collection tubes, incorporating the dc sputtered double layer metal-aluminium nitride cermet selective surface, have been mass-produced by TurboSun in large quantities under license to the University of Sydney since 1995. A solar absorptance of 0.94–0.95 and emittance of 0.04–0.05 at room temperature has been achieved for the SS-AIN cermet solar coatings. These solar tubes are stable at 330–400°C. These M-AIN cermet tubes have widespread application for solar hot water and steam heaters, as well as the demonstration test units for solar thermal electricity. In China, the production of solar water heaters using all-glass evacuated solar heat collection tubes has rapidly increased since 1995. The experimental results show that the solar selective coatings incorporating dc sputtered tungsten and dc reactively sputtered aluminium nitride components in a cermet should be stable at 500°C in vacuum. It would be possible to produce solar collector tubes for solar thermal electricity application with superior solar performance at a much lower cost.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(01)00039-8

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