Solar filters

Crystalline nanopowders have improved the chemical, mechanical, optical and magnetic properties of materials. Harder ceramic materials, solar filters and catalysts used in environmental protection have been obtained [8]. In the near future microscopic robots may revolutionize industrial production [7-9] and may be used in interplanetary travels [10]. 

The effectiveness of solar filters can be determined from deterioration rates of highly susceptible materials protected, to some degree, by the filters from intense (accelerated) solar radiation (34). Deterioration rates are determined by correlation with selective spectral changes in the materials over the wavelength solar range. 

Figure 8. Chemiluminescence spectra under nitrogen of HDPE, LLDPE and mPE at different irradiation times (solar filter 300-800 nm, 550 W/m )...

Lake Texcoco. Lake Texcoco, a few miles northeast of Mexico City, is in the lowest part of the Valley of Mexico. The lake is mostly dry and alkaH is recovered from brine weUs that have been drilled into the underlying stmcture. The brine is concentrated first in a spiral flow solar evaporation pond and further in conventional evaporators. This strong brine is carbonated and then cooled to crystallize sodium bicarbonate which is subsequently filtered and calcined to soda ash. Purity of this product is similar to Magadi material (9,29). 

Electrodialysis. Electro dialytic membrane process technology is used extensively in Japan to produce granulated—evaporated salt. Filtered seawater is concentrated by membrane electro dialysis and evaporated in multiple-effect evaporators. Seawater can be concentrated to a product brine concentration of 200 g/L at a power consumption of 150 kWh/1 of NaCl (8). Improvements in membrane technology have reduced the power consumption and energy costs so that a high value-added product such as table salt can be produced economically by electro dialysis. However, industrial-grade salt produced in this manner caimot compete economically with the large quantities of low cost solar salt imported into Japan from Austraha and Mexico. 

At Great Salt Lake Minerals Corporation (Utah), solar-evaporated brines are winter-chilled to —3° C in solar ponds. At this low temperature, a relatively pure Glauber s salt precipitates. Ponds are drained and the salt is loaded into tmcks and hauled to a processing plant. At the plant, Glauber s salt is dissolved in hot water. The resulting Hquor is filtered to remove insolubles. The filtrate is then combined with soHd-phase sodium chloride, which precipitates anhydrous sodium sulfate of 99.5—99.7% purity. Great Salt Lake Minerals Corporation discontinued sodium sulfate production in 1993 when it transferred production and sales to North American Chemical Corporation (Trona, California). 

At 25°C, pH 7.5, 1.5 ppm FAC, and 25 ppm cyanuric acid, the calculated HOCl concentration is only 0.01 ppm. Although the monochloroisocyanurate ion hydrolyzes to only a small extent, it serves as a reservoir of HOCl because of rapid hydrolysis. Indeed, this reaction is so fast that HClCy behaves like FAC in all wet methods of analysis. Furthermore, since HClCy absorbs uv only below 250 nm, which is filtered out of solar radiation by the earth s atmosphere, it is more resistant to decomposition than the photoactive C10 , which absorbs sunlight at 250—350 nm and represents the principal mode of chlorine loss in unstabilized pools (30). As Httie as 5 ppm of bromide ion prevents stabilization of FAC by cyanuric acid (23) (see also Cyanuric and ISOCYANURIC acids). 

Photochromic lenses for eyewear serve as variable density optical filters. Other appHcations for photochromic light filters have been proposed including gla2ing appHcations for solar attenuation, variable transmission camera lenses, and shields for protection against the light flash from a nuclear explosion. 

Among all semiconductor NPs, metal selenides have been the focus of great attention due to their importance in various applications such as thermoelectric cooling materials, optical filters and sensors, optical recording materials, solar cells, superionic materials, laser materials and biological labels. Many synthetic methods have been developed for the preparation of relatively monodispersed selenide nanopartides (Murray et al., 1993 Korgel... 

Because of UV filters are substances designed to absorb solar energy, photolysis and photocatalysis have been tested as a feasible treatment to degrade the recalcitrant compounds. To date, very few studies have examined UV filters response under UV radiation when exposed in aqueous samples [41-44], Results indicate that the extent of degradation is quite variable, from no photodegradation of BP3 to complete mineralization of BP1 after 24 h of UV light irradiation. 

Visible- or solar-blind UV sensors can be made from a Si photodiode by additionally using an optical filter that transmits UV radiation only, see below. A more detailed explanation of the physics of UV photodiodes (made from Si as well as from other semiconductor materials) can be found in Ref. [1]. 

Back contact solar cell, 23 46 Back-end volatility, 12 398-399 Backflow, 11 323 Backflow bag filters, 26 709 Background-limited IR photodetector (BLIP), 19 135... 

Fig. 40 Energy distribution of solar radiation (according to CIE, No. 20) and filtered xenon arc light (Xenotest 1200) [102].

With filtering to cut out the radiation below 300 nm and to reduce the infrared, xenon lamps provide a quite good simulation of sunlight across the spectrum. They are now considered the preferred source where the total solar spectrum is required and the method, ISO 4892-2 [27], is nominated in ISO 11403-3 [23]. Unfortunately, xenon lamp apparatus is very expensive and the exposure temperature is usually rather high. 

Xenon lamps can be filtered to approximate the solar spectrum under glass and a fluorescent lamp, the UVB 351, does this in the ultraviolet region... 

In research laboratories, different types of light sources are used instead of solar radiation. In most cases the simulated spectrums have considerable deviation from the solar spectrum. Based on equation (3.6.9) Murphy et al [109] analyzed the maximum possible efficiencies for different materials according to their band gap in the case of solar global AM 1.5 illumination and xenon arc lamp, see Fig. 3.21. For example, anatase titania with a bandgap of 3.2 eV has a maximum possible efficiency of 1.3% under AM 1.5 illumination, and 1.7% using Xe lamp without any filter. For rutile titania these values are 2.2% and 2.3% respectively. 

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