Design fabrication and analysis of parabolic solar trough collector

Date : Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

<div><p>Parabolic trough collector is most satisfactory means of the energy crisis. It has most potential to overcome the hazardous effects of fossils fuels. Environment friendly power vitality is additionally named as the sustainable power source which gets the normally recharged essential sources i.e.; wind, biomass, daylight, tides and so forth. In earlier decades the sun-oriented exuberance develops out cleanest and generally utilized of dynamism since it discharges no CO2. The edge of utilizing this asset over the regular intensity sources brings about the better efficiency, for example, Electricity creation, Direct Steam Generation (DSG), Industrial Heat Process (IHP) and further more. In this project, the Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) innovation is utilized which assembles all the sunlight-based radiations and center onto a combining point of convergence and afterward assimilated at the Heat Collecting Element (HCE). Design model of parabolic trough is established in SOLID-WORKS of 1.5 by 1m dimensions and results verified by using theoretical and simulation outputs by ANSYS. Comparison is projected between distinct absorbers i.e.; copper, steel and aluminum to observe the temperature variation at outlet and their thermal productivity Theoretical outcomes are taken at the respective mass flowrates i.e.; 0.003, 0.004, 0.005, 0.006 kg/sec. Inlet temperature was 280C through which we obtain the maximum temperature attained at 0.003 kg/sec for Copper, Aluminum and Steel which is approximately about 71.20C, 61.610C and 55.70C with the thermal efficiencies of 72.9%, 56.7% and 46.8% respectively. The theoretical results are compared with the theoretical outcomes and ANSYS simulated results. The majorobjective of using this technology to mitigate the emissions of CO2 by 510,387,920 kg/CO2 yearly.</p></div>