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Solar News: Solar Collectors

Solar Collector is the term generally used to describe a device that converts the suns radiation into something more useful, such as heat or electricity. This article concentrates on the solar collectors designed for converting the suns energy into heat which in turn heats your domestic and commercial hot water. Also for this article we are going to ignore flat plate solar panels which you can read about in my other posts. If you are initially researching solar panels you should start by reading the earlier posts in this blog about solar water heating panels.

There are two types of solar collector commonly used in the UK.

- Direct Flow Solar Collectors
- Heat Pipe Solar Collectors

Both systems usually utilise an evacuated tube. This works in a similar way to your double glazing at home. It forms a vacuum barrier that stops heat transferring away from the collector and it stops the cold air cooling the heated liquid down. While this barrier is an effective heat insulator it allows most of the suns radiation to pass through into the absorber surface of the collector.

The difference between direct flow and heat pipe collectors comes when we look at how the heat is transfered from the collector to your hot water cylinder.

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