DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLAR PARABOLIC TROUGH AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

On this project CPC (Compound Parabolic Concentrator) with circular glass protected to absorber with stainless steel tubing inner and parabolic reflectors is first designed and then fabricated and also thermal overall performance analysis. Here the incident rays, after mirrored image from the reflector, aren't centered at a factor however are simply accumulated on a line of absorber floor. Layout of compound parabolic trough sun rays collector (CPC) without monitoring is presented on this work. The thermal performance is obtained that is between (80%-85%) with glass cover at mass go with the flow charge 1 ml/sec at awareness without want to monitoring system. Effects are calculated for Indore metropolis by using the use of manufactured prototype. CPC is commonly oriented in E-W direction. The top part of the reflector does no longer intercept a great deal radiation and saves a large quantity of reflector fabric with simplest a little loss in attention. Design and fabricate CPC model for a half acceptance angle θc= 68.38º to achieve higher concentration. Receiver designed includes stainless-steel tubing of about 21 mm ID to control water flow rate and to obtain high output temperature of water. Also an optimum mass flow rate for maximum efficiency is evaluated experimentally.