- Author
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Waksman, D.
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Streed, E.
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Seiler, J.
- Title
- NBS Solar Collector Durability/Reliability Test Program Plan. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBS TN 1136,
January 1981,
85 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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accelerants
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durability
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reliability
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solar collectors
- Abstract
- The test program described in this plan is designed to evaluate both approved and proposed solar collector tet procedures and to correlate laboratory, accelerated field and simulated operational exposures with actual field data. The tests and exposure procedures described herein are intended to determine the influence of environmental exposure parameters that could affect the degradation of solar collectors and their materials. They are also intended, to the extent possible, to provide a correlation between changes that occur at the materials and the collector component levels. It is expected that the data obtained through their use will lead to more meaningful reliability/durability tests for solar collectors and their materials. A wide variety of commercially available solar collectors and multiple material coupons of collector components are being tested at sites in different climatic regions. Appropriate laboratory tests are being conducted during the same time frame to determine physical and material properties for comparison with field test data and operational collector experience. The data obtained from these tests will be analyzed and correlated with that obtained from the current Government Demonstration Program and other related Government-sponsored programs.