IS 12933 : Part 1 : 2025 Solar Flat Plate Collector - Specification - Part 1 Requirements
1 SCOPE
1.1 This Indian Standard (Part 1) specifies the requirements of solar flat plate collector for water heating.
1.2 This standard does not apply to the following:
a) Collector in whom heat transfer fluid may change phase (that is, heat pipe collectors and steam generating collectors);
b) Concentrating collectors used in a system designed to generate mechanical energy/electricity;
c) Collectors in which the thermal storage unit is an integral part of the collector so that the collection and the storage processes cannot be separated;
d) Unglazed flat plate collector;
e) Installation or mounting of solar collectors; and
f) Tracking mechanism of the sun following collector system.
2 REFERENCES
The standards given below contain provisions which through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of these standards.
| IS No. | Title |
| IS 12933 | Solar flat plate collector - Specification: |
| (Part 2) : 2003 | Components (second revision) |
| (Part 5) : 2003 | Test methods (second revision) |
| IS/ISO 9488 : 2022 | Solar energy - Vocabulary (first revision) |