CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER ( PARABILIC TROUGH COLLECTORS) PLANT FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Project Title

CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER ( PARABILIC TROUGH COLLECTORS) PLANT FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Project Area of Specialization Mechanical EngineeringProject Summary

Project Tiltle:

                   CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER ( PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS) PLANT FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION.

It is Parabolic Trogh Collectors.

Concentrating  solar  power  plants  produce  electric  power  by  converting  the  sun's  energy  into high-temperature  heat  using  various  mirror  configurations.  The  heat  is  then  channeled  through  a conventional  generator.  The  plants  consist  of  two  parts:  one  that  collects  solar  energy  and  converts  it  to heat,  and  another  that  converts  heat  energy  to  electricity.  This  is  combined  called  solar  thermal  electric power  plant.  Concentrating  solar  power  (CSP)  technologies,  including  parabolic  troughs,  power  towers, and  dish/engines,  have  the  potential  to  provide  the  world  with  tens  of  thousands  of  megawatts  of  clean, renewable,  cost-competitive  power  beginning  later  this  decade.  These  technologies  can  be  used  to generate  electricity  for  a  variety  of  applications,  ranging  from  remote  power  systems  as  small  as  a  few kilowatts  (kW)  up  to  grid-connected  applications  of  200-350  megawatts  (MW)  or  more.  A  concentrating solar  power  system  that  produces  350  MW  of  electricity  displaces  the  energy  equivalent  of  2.3  million barrels  of  oil.  Developing  countries  in  Asia,  Africa,  and  Latin  America—where  half  the  populations currently  without  electricity  and  sunlight  are  usually  abundant—represent  the  biggest  and fastest-growing  market  for  power-producing  technologies.  Several  projects  are  being  developed  in  India, Egypt,  Morocco,  and  Mexico.  The  benefits  from  CSP  technology  from  an  econan  omic  point  of  view  are  it reduces  the  consumption  of  fossil  fuels,  from  an  environmental  point  of  view  it  reduces  air  pollutants  or greenhouse  gas  emissions  and  it  produces  clean  power.  CSP  technology  is  ideally  suited  for multi-megawatt  central  power  plants.  It  is  a  proven  technology  with  354  MW  operating  successfully  in California  for  the  past  25  years.  And  rapidly  deployed  because  it  uses  conventional  items  such  as  glass, steel,  gears,  turbines,  etc. 

Project Objectives

CSP plants are already operating on a large scale in many locations around the world. However, currently, CSP offers moderate conversion efficiencies and uncompetitive costs and therefore  requires significant government incentives. Many opportunities are available for improving CSP: increasing the operating temperature, which, in turn, would increase the conversion efficiency and reduce specific costs (per unit energy); reducing component and plant costs by developing improved materials and manufacturing practices, and adding thermal storage to provide true dispatch ability. These improvements require major advances in materials, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and other disciplines, as well as further development and demonstration. It is expected that improved CSP technologies will reach grid parity around 2025, leading to a better competitive position in the market, and implementation on a much larger scale.                                                                                                                           In this project, we are using water which converts into steam due to high temp: and then we can easily run a steam turbine and attach with steam turbine a generator /dynamo for electricity generation. We want to achieve from this project electricity generation both day and night, at this time we are making only a day time run a PTC Plant, but we can also utilize it in at night, when we store hot molten salt in an insulated tank, then we can use it, at night for continue generation of electricity. 

Project Implementation Method

Solar fields using trough systems capture the sun's energy using large mirrors shaped like a parabola, or a giant "U," that are connected in long lines that track the sun's movement.                                                                                       throughout the day. When the sun's heat is reflected off the mirror, the curved shape sends most of that reflected heat onto a receiver pipe that is filled with a specialized heat transfer fluid. The thermal energy from the heated fluid generates steam and electricity in a conventional steam turbine. Once the fluid transfers its heat, it is recirculated into the system for reuse. The steam is also cooled, condensed, andcondensed, and reused. Heated fluid in trough systems can also provide heat to thermal storage systems, which can be used to generate electricity at times, when the sun is not shining.

Basically in project we are using water which will converts in to steam and the we can move a turbine , with steam turbubine we can attach a generator and then we can generate electricity.

Benefits of the Project

Parabolic trough systems are the most mature, and thus commercially viable, of the CSP technologies. 

The net plant efficiency of 15% has been commercially proven. ?

Investment and operating costs have been commercially proven. 

Systems are modular. 

Systems have a good land-use factor.

Systems have lower materials demand.

The hybrid concept has been proven. Storage capability. 

Future is full of Renewable energy and that’s why it is very beneficial, So we can achieve more electricity both day and night. If we use molten salt thermal storage and then we can store it in an insulated tank, where a hot molten salt tank will store,  then we can utilize it at night for electricity generation. 

The  benefits  from  CSP  technology  from  an  econan  omic  point  of  view  are  it reduces  the  consumption  of  fossil  fuels,  from  an  environmental  point  of  view  it  reduces  air  pollutants  or greenhouse  gas  emissions  and  it  produces  clean  power.  CSP  technology  is  ideally  suited  for multi-megawatt  central  power  plants.  It  is  a  proven  technology  with  354  MW  operating  successfully  in California  for  the  past  25  years.  And  rapidly  deployed  because  it  uses  conventional  items  such as glass steel,  gears,  turbines,  etc.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Our project will complete with some process when Our project will be completed then we will share it with you,

As soon as possible we will send you the full project with a given output, Now we are starting to work on it.

Some details about the project which is given below:

PARABOLIC  TROUGH COLLECTORS Operation of a  parabolic trough.  Source:  RENAC  Solar radiation is reflected from the trough onto an evacuated tube receiver extending along the trough.  Inside the receiver,  there is a  heat transfer fluid that transfers the heat to water via a  heat exchanger to produce superheated steam which drives a conventional steam turbine to generate electricity.  For lower temperature applications less than  200? the eat transfer fluid s often a  mix of demineralized water with ethylene-glycol.  For higher temperature applications of  200-500?  synthetic oils or molten salts are used.  The  troughs  track  the  sun as  it  moves  across  the sky.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry Energy Other IndustriesCore Technology OthersOther Technologies Clean TechSustainable Development Goals Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Climate ActionRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	90
trough, storage tanks, Heat exchanger, Stm Turbine, Genetr:condnsr	Equipment	6	15	90