Did you take into account the incidence angle modifiers when you calculated the efficiency?
As for the second issue, did you account for any pipe losses or pump energy gains to the fluid? Did you look to see if the differences you're calculating are within your simulation tolerances?
Jeff - TESS
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> On Jun 20, 2017, at 8:11 PM, Rm Chemilo via TRNSYS-users <
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> In this attachment file, I tried to calculate hourly thermal efficiency of solar collector by using this two equation