European Solabs® project

Rising energy costs are increasing demand for renewable sources of energy. Given this situation, the use of solar heating is developing into a market of great interest for the steel industry. As part of the European Solabs® project, steel-based solar collectors have been developed for application as facade elements in steel construction. The design of the collectors is an important element of this development, allowing them to be integrated into the architecture of buildings and thus gain greater acceptance for solar heating. The task was therefore to develop an unglazed, colored facade collector based on coated steel sheet.