Pilkington Optiwhite™ for Solar Applications


Pilkington Optiwhite™ is a range of extra clear low-iron float glass products with very high solar transmittance, offering improved solar energy conversion and consistent performances. This range of low-iron glass products is suitable for use in thin film photovoltaics, crystalline silicon photovoltaics, concentrated solar power technology, solar thermal collectors and solar mirrors.

The Pilkington Optiwhite™ Range includes the standard and well established low-iron glass Pilkington Optiwhite™ and Pilkington Optiwhite™ S, which was developed specifically for the solar industry and offers even greater solar energy transmittance. Pilkington Microwhite™ is our Pilkington Optiwhite™ in its extremely thin version (glass thicknesses down to 1.0 mm).

With its very high solar energy transmittance, our low iron glass Pilkington Optiwhite™ is the ideal cover plate for a range of solar technologies, including Thin Film Photovoltaics, Concentrated Solar Power Technology and Solar Thermal Collectors. Pilkington Optiwhite™ can also be used as a cover plate for Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics.

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Features & Benefits

  • Very high light and solar heat transmittance.
  • Consistent lifetime performance following prolonged exposure to the sun (no solarisation).
  • Available in annealed or tempered/toughened form for Pilkington Optiwhite™ and Pilkington Optiwhite™ S; available in annealed form only for Pilkington Microwhite™.

 

Product Range


Our range of solar glass products includes the standard and well established low iron glass Pilkington Optiwhite™, and Pilkington Optiwhite™ S, which was developed specifically for the solar industry and offers even greater solar energy transmittance.

Pilkington Microwhite™ is our Pilkington Optiwhite™ in its extremely thin version (glass thicknesses down to 1.0 mm).

The properties of our Pilkington Microwhite™ and Pilkington Optiwhite™ products are summarised in the performance tables.

Pilkington Optiwhite™ - performance data summary Pilkington Microwhite™ - performance data summary

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 Pilkington Spectrum

Pilkington Spectrum è un programma di calcolo in linea, gratuito, che consente di comporre vetrate isolanti con prodotti Pilkington e di calcolarne le prestazioni luminose ed energetiche. Che si tratti di vetrate semplici, vetrate isolanti (doppie, triple o quadruple), doppia pelle oppure doppie finestre, Pilkington Spectrum è in grado di fornire le seguenti informazioni:

  • Proprietà luminose ed energetiche (trasmissione, riflessione, assorbimento, fattore solare, ecc) calcolate secondo la norma UNI EN 410;
  • Trasmittanza termica Ug calcolata al centro della lastra secondo la norma UNI EN 673;
  • Valori di isolamento acustico misurati secondo la UNI EN ISO 140-3 (ove disponibili) o valori generalmente accettati secondo la UNI EN 12758;
  • Trasmissione UV e indice di resa colore (Ra) secondo la norma UNI EN 410;
  • Altre caratteristiche (ad esempio: sicurezza d'impiego, resistenza agli attacchi manuali, resistenza al fuoco e resistenza ai differenziali di temperatura).

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