Polymer Flat Plate Solar Collectoer: A Review

Abstract

A brief description on polymer flat plat solar collector manufacturing, design, and applications are given in this work. The main obstacles that face these collectors type, and how can be processed are also discussed. It is found that polymer low thermal conductivity, and degradation are the most essential difficulties in this industry, and increase heat transfer area and additives are the best common solutions. While stabilizers can be added to increase polymer life time.