PROPOSAL AND DESIGN OF NEW SOLAR COLLECTOR

Abstract

The increase trend in fuel price coupled with rising carbon dioxide concentration and energy security have
encouraged the world to shift towards renewable energy sources. In recent years a nationally and internationally
concern about energy production has been terrific.
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has great prospective for hefty scale renewable energy sources, and is currently an eye
catching one for its utilization with much scope in research. Especially, parabolic trough collectors (PTCs) are attractive
due to their increased efficiency as compared to other point focus and line focus.
This paper is concerned with a newly developed solar collector which consists of Renovative Parabolic trough collector
(PTC) along with flat facets. PTC trough will not have any tracking mechanism whereas flat reflector will track the sun.
Such collector is being developed to keep PTC disadvantage of movable receiver into consideration. By newly adopted
methodology to design we come to area of 6 m2 collector area to generate 1 KW of power.