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Article: Testing evacuated tube solar collectors: creating equipment for efficient, economical conversion of solar radiation.
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- Designfax
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- February 1, 2005
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Thermomax Ltd. is a manufacturer of equipment for converting solar radiation into thermal energy. Our evacuated tube solar collectors are used to produce clean energy for domestic and industrial hot water, space heating, and cooling and seawater desalination. At our manufacturing facility in Bangor, Northern Ireland, we have installed two new test facilities--one for outside tests under real conditions, and an indoor solar simulator. The new facilities have significantly reduced the time and cost of product development and have been useful tools for ongoing production quality assurance. Using the solar simulator, we can perform tests all year round, no matter what the ...