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Solar energy has enormous potential in many areas of industrial activity in Brazil, since much of the country has high levels of sustained solar insolation. Unfortunately, there are few industries that use solar energy for water heating even though some industrial processes need water at temperatures that could be easily obtained from flat plate collectors. This paper uses a numerical simulation to...