How Do You Calculate the Necessary Collector Area for a Solar Water Heater?

[Ishida52134]

Homework Statement

In a solar water heater, energy from the Sun is gathered by rooftop collectors, which circulate water through tubes in the collector. The solar radiation enters the collector through a transparent cover and warms the water in the tubes. Assuming that 80% of the incident solar energy gets lost (i.e; it does not go into heating the water), what collector area is necessary to take water from a 200-L tank and raise its temperature from 20 C to 40 C in 1.0 h? The intensity of incident sunlight is 700 W/m^2.

Homework Equations

Q = mcdelta t

delta t = iR

The Attempt at a Solution

 

[SammyS]

Welcome to PF.

What have you tried?

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[Ishida52134]

I've tried applying those formulas and combinations of them. I don't really understand the problem.

 

[SammyS]

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