1 Scope
This document specifies laboratory test methods to assess the durability of silvered-glass reflectors with high technical performance to be used in concentrating solar technologies. The
reflectors within the scope of this document are composed of a float-glass substrate
and a reflecting silver layer on its back-side, which is protected by a thin copper
layer and an anticorrosive paint system composed of a primer and a top coating, and
an optional intermediate coating.
This document defines multiple accelerated aging tests on reflector samples of size of 10 cm × 10 cm or larger. It defines the measurement methods to determine
the degradation parameters used for assessment and the acceptance criteria of the
accelerated aging tests.
Annex A of this document outlines the procedure to apply this document to reflector types
of different composition than that of the silvered float-glass reflectors described
above.
Annex B provides information on how to approximately correlate the measured degradation of
selected accelerated aging tests with outdoor exposure in different environments.
These correlations are limited to silvered float-glass reflector types with the abovementioned
layer stack, since differing coating types are likely to introduce unforeseen degradation
modes, which possibly will not be triggered under the proposed testing conditions.