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Inorganic, Coloured Thin Films for Solar Thermal Energy Convertors in Sustainable Buildings

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The increasing need to develop a sustainable built environment asks for the integration of solar energy conversion technologies in the new or existing building elements. The integration must meet basic requirements on functionality, cost, environmental protection and last but not least social acceptance. This involves efforts to find novel, competitive solutions, to slow down (or stop) climate change and also to answer the increasing needs of the social system. The paper presents flat plate solar thermal collectors (FPSTC) with nontraditional shapes and colour, suitable for façades’ integration. The coloured absorber plates (red, green and yellow-orange) were integrated at demonstrator level, and the recorded nominal efficiencies reached promising values.

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The research described in this paper was carried out using the infrastructure developed in the frame of the project PRO-DD (POS-CCE, 0.2.2.1, ID 123, SMIS 2637, contract no. 11/2009) and supported by the grants financed by the Romanian National Research Council ESTinURBA (PNII-PCCA type 2, contract no. 28/2012) and SOLTRICOL (PNIII-PED, contract no. 58/2017).

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    Dana Perniu, Maria Covei, Cristina Bogatu, Luminita Isac, Ion Visa & Anca Duta

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Perniu, D., Covei, M., Bogatu, C., Isac, L., Visa, I., Duta, A. (2020). Inorganic, Coloured Thin Films for Solar Thermal Energy Convertors in Sustainable Buildings. In: Dabija, AM. (eds) Energy Efficient Building Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40671-4_4

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