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Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collectors—A Review

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Solar thermal flat plate collectors (STFPC) are the mainstay in modern household solar thermal applications and in industrial sectors requiring low-temperature applications. They are easy to design and manufacture and are available in many forms. STFPCs are used in water heating, crops drying, timber seasoning, space heating and solar absorption/adsorption refrigeration systems. It is one of the most widely used and studied solar collectors. In this paper, an attempt has been made to review research works on improving the thermal performance of the solar flat plate collector. Detailed discussions have been presented on the various losses of the STFPC and methodologies suggested by the researchers to reduce the losses as well as improving the thermal performance.

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The authors wish to acknowledge with a deep sense of gratitude the TEQIP-III cell, Jorhat Engineering College for providing us with necessary arrangements and help during our research work, which enable us to carry out our research and publish our results.

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    Dhrupad Sarma, Parimal Bakul Barua, Deva Kanta Rabha, Nidhi Verma, Soumyajyoti Purkayastha & Sudipta Das

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Sarma, D., Barua, P.B., Rabha, D.K., Verma, N., Purkayastha, S., Das, S. (2021). Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collectors—A Review. In: Bora, P.K., Nandi, S., Laskar, S. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 765. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1550-4_21

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