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The issue of freezing often occurs when using all-glass vacuum tube solar water heaters during cold winter seasons, leading to problems such as pipe ruptures and tank leakage. In order to further study the nocturnal heat dissipation and freezing characteristics of these heaters, a three-dimensional transient numerical model of their nocturnal heat...
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... the overall size of the collector is large, the overall imaging effect of the thermal imager is not satisfactory. Therefore, the lower-left corner of the vacuum tube collector's outer surface and the middle to the bottom part of a single vacuum tube are selected for imaging, as shown in Figure 5. The temperature at the measurement point is significantly lower than the ground temperature due to the lower sky radiation temperature compared to the ground temperature. ...
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