2.) Consider a flat plate solar collector placed horizontally on the flat roof of a house. The collector is 5ft T= 50°F sky Solar collector 70°F wide and 15 ft long, and the average temperature of the exposed surface of the collector is 100 °F. The emissivity of the exposed surface of the collector is 0.9. Determine the rate of heat loss from the collector by convection and radiation during a calm day when the ambient air temperature is 70 °F and Figure 2 Problem 2 the effective sky temperature for radiation exchange is 50 °F. Take the convection heat transfer coefficient on the exposed surface to be 2.5 BTU/h-ft2- °F.

2.) Consider a flat plate solar collector placed horizontally on the flat roof of a house. The collector is 5ft T= 50°F sky Solar collector 70°F wide and 15 ft long, and the average temperature of the exposed surface of the collector is 100 °F. The emissivity of the exposed surface of the collector is 0.9. Determine the rate of heat loss from the collector by convection and radiation during a calm day when the ambient air temperature is 70 °F and Figure 2 Problem 2 the effective sky temperature for radiation exchange is 50 °F. Take the convection heat transfer coefficient on the exposed surface to be 2.5 BTU/h-ft2- °F.

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Chapter11: Heat Transfer By Radiation

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