A REVIEW PAPER ON PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTOR SYSTEM

Harwinder Singh, Dr. Pushpendra Singh

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In this work, potential for a solar-thermal concentrator to produce steam and improvement in performance of parabolic trough collector system has been studied. Some important parameter and design about the concentrator are analysed. Various methods are available today to analyze the performance of parabolic trough collector system. Some methods are heat transfer analysis, double parabolic trough concentrators, parabolic trough receiver with outer vacuum shell, and solar parabolic concentrator with multiple curved surface methods and apart from this some factor having influence the performance of the system are discussed in this section. The parabolic trough concentrators can be used to provide power to remote areas which are far away from the power transmission gridlines. This will make power readily available to the marginalized rural people. Improvement of the tracking system and optical efficiency can improve the efficiencies of the fabricated concentrator systems.

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solar concentrators, outer vacuum shell, tracking system

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