Superfícies Seletivas a base de Polímeros Inorgânicos para Coletores Solares de Média e Alta Temperatura.

Abstract

The development of new materials and technologies have been shown to be very important when the goal is to make solar energy will be more economically attractive. One way to promote this attractiveness is increasing the efficiency of solar collectors, which can be done by use of so-called selective surfaces, or deposited coatings on absorbing plate solar radiation, which allow a maximum of absorbance in the solar spectrum while maintaining a minimum emittance in the infrared. Absorbers for producing films, it is necessary to use materials technology, energy and environmental efficiency, such as inorganic polymers (geopolymers). In the Earth's tropical regions, such as the state of Paraiba, there are materials with potential use for the synthesis of inorganic polymers that have not been evaluated, the Sugar Cane Bagasse Ash (SCBA) is one of them. So that this study sought to assess the SCBA's potential use as raw material for production of solar absorbing films. Through the use of two deposition techniques in three types of substrates, it was concluded that the SCBA has intrinsic selectivity, having potential use for the production of solar absorbing films. So that the best result set (film + substrate) exhibited peak and average absorption of respectively 88% and 65%. This surface was obtained from the SCBA.5.250 diluted in 10 g of H2O deposited by painting techniques on the glass substrate.