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Dear Omisanya, There are a few options: First, regardless of the specific details of a collector's construction, when a collector is tested and its performance parameters are reported in a generic form so that it can be compared against similar technologies. For example, the form of the performance curve for a flat plate type-collector is the same whether there are fin-tubes behind a glass cover or whether there are evacuated tubes with a reflector behind them. It may be that the parameters required by the linear parabolic concentrator component can be obtained for your collector. If not, then a second option is the "performance map" solar collector model in the standard library (Type72). It will require you to create a data file that specifies the collector efficiency as a function of wind speed, solar radiation, and dT/It (temperature difference between inlet and ambient divided by incident solar radiation). Kind regards, David On 12/15/2011 09:26, OMISANYA NUA wrote:
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