Energy and exergy analyses of solar ponds in the Indian climatic conditions

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.R. Ranjan ◽  
S.C. Kaushik ◽  
N.L. Panwar
Author(s):  
S. K. Shukla ◽  
S. K. Gupta

The work presented in this paper essentially consists of modeling and analysis of energy and exergy efficiency of a community solar cooker, installed at Holistic Health and Food Centre, I.I.T. Delhi India in March 1998. The cooker is meant for community cooking, which consists of a linear parabolic concentrator with concentration ratio of 20. The experiments, on this cooker, were performed in summer and winter, both the climatic conditions. The measurements were done by using microprocessor based on line data acquisition system using class I solar pyranometer and Pt. 100 temperature sensors. Based on the experimental data obtained by testing and performance evaluation of this concentrating type of solar cooker, the energy and exergy efficiencies are calculated. From an analysis of the experimental values the average efficiency of this cooker is measured as 14% only. The different losses contributes to low efficiency are optical losses (16%), geometrical losses (30%) and thermal losses (35%) accounts for more than, 80% energy waste from the radiation coming to the reflector. The rest of the losses are due to edge losses etc. the maximum temperature of water was recorded 98°C during water heating tests.


Author(s):  
M. V. J. J. Suresh ◽  
K. S. Reddy ◽  
Ajit Kumar Kolar

Thermodynamic optimization of power plants based on supercritical (SupC) and ultrasupercritical (USC) steam parameters is reported in this article. The objective is to compute the maximum attainable power plant efficiency in Indian climatic conditions using high ash (HA) indigenous coal. A unit size of 800 MWe presently under development in India is considered for energy and exergy analysis of power plants. Commercially established steam turbine parameters are used for the optimization of SupC power plant, whereas advanced steam turbine parameters currently under research and development are used for the optimization of USC power plant. The plant energy efficiency of the optimized SupC and USC power plant based on air-coal combustion (ACC) show considerable increases of 2.8 and 5.2% points, respectively compared with the current SupC ACC power plant (reference plant) being commissioned in India. The increases in plant exergy efficiency for the same power plants are 2.6 and 4.8% points and the corresponding CO2 reductions are about 6 and 11%, respectively. The maximum possible plant energy efficiency in Indian climatic conditions using HA Indian coal is about 42.7% (USC power plant). The effect of low ash coal on plant energy and exergy efficiencies compared with HA coal is also presented. Further, the effect of oxy-coal combustion (OCC) on the plant energy and exergy efficiencies compared with the ACC is studied for the double reheat SupC and USC power plants to account for the impact of CO2 capture. A significant reduction of 8.8 and 6.6% points in plant energy efficiency is observed for SupC and USC OCC power plants, respectively compared with the reference SupC ACC power plant.


2021 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 116475
Author(s):  
Nabeel Sameer Mahmoud ◽  
Hayder Mohammad Jaffal ◽  
Ahmed Abdulnabi Imran

Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 119740
Author(s):  
López-Vidaña Erick César ◽  
César-Munguía Ana Lilia ◽  
García-Valladares Octavio ◽  
Salgado Sandoval Orlando ◽  
Domínguez Niño Alfredo

2016 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihong Geng ◽  
Huadong Liu ◽  
Xinli Wei ◽  
Zhonglan Hou ◽  
Zhenzhen Wang

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 2479-2489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafer Utlu ◽  
Ziya Sogut ◽  
Arif Hepbasli ◽  
Zuhal Oktay

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