Ecosense Installs Solar Parabolic Trough System at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT)
Ecosense’s Solar Parabolic Trough
Collector Based System consists of parabolic reflectors, absorber tube, sun
tracker, piping, storage tanks and a heat exchanger. A control panel would
control different devices and also measure the different parameters of the
system. The system can be used to perform experiments in heat transfer,
parabolic trough characteristics and heat loss at different parts of the
system. The system is highly flexible – it can be used with different working
fluids, different absorbing materials, different piping insulation thickness
and different types of storage tanks. This gives a lot of scope for research in
heat transfer and related fields. Wind speed variation and flow velocity are
other parameters which can be changed to show their impact on heat transfer and
heat loss.