VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BELAGAVI, KARANATAKA- 590018

A Project Report on

“FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SOLAR PARABOLIC

DISH COLLECTOR WITH ALUMINIUM AS REFLECTING SURFACE
”

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the completion of requirements

for the Bachelor of Engineering in

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Submitted By
BHARATH V 1MJ15ME145
HARSHITH.S 1MJ16ME407
BYRESH M 1MJ16ME402
BASAVARAJA G K 1MJ16ME401

Under the guidance of

Mr. SUCHITH.K.S
(Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MVJCE)

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Near ITPB, Channasandra, Bengaluru- 560067
Academic Year 2018-2019
 ABSTRACT

The development of a solar parabolic dish collector prototype for rural areas
with high solar resource availability, which have no access to electricity service
or budget resources to purchase a stove (electric or gas). The solar collector
prototype proposes a solution to solve these kinds of issues and use sunlight to
work it. Through an aluminum foil parabolic dish, solar radiation is
concentrated into a specific area called focus, where thermal energy is generated
and is used for cooking or fulfilling a necessity without high investment and
helping the environment.

Solar energy is very large, in exhaustible source of energy. The use of

renewable energy is receiving growing interest worldwide. Cooking is the
measure necessity for people all over the world. The power from the sun is
1.8×1011 MW on the Earth is thousand times greater than all other commercial
sources of energy available on the Earth. Everybody demand clean and safe
energy devices with cost effective.
 CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE SURVEY

 CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Solar energy is one of the alternative energy sources that has vast
potential. It is estimated that the earth receives approximately 1000W/m2
amount of solar irradiation in a day. Amount of irradiation could generate
around 85,000TW and estimates that the current global energy consumption
is about 15TW. The selection of type of energy source depends on economic,
environmental and safety considerations. Solar energy is considered to be
more suitable on the basis of environmental and safety considerations. The
world energy requirement is increasing at a faster rate. Almost all the non-
renewable energy sources will be depleted in the near future. These sources
also cause environmental hazards. Thus the dependence on such sources has
to be reduced. Thus the only viable option to meet the future energy
requirement is to use the renewable energy sources.

With the growing population and fast pace of development, energy is

becoming more expensive and our cities and towns face a major power
crisis. The reality is that resources like coal, oil and natural gas will not be
around forever. We all realise today, that we need alternatives sources of
energy that are renewable. Renewable energy is derived from natural
resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat. Solar energy is
one of the most promising future renewable energy sources as reflector.
Solar energy consists of light and heat emitted by the sun, in the form of
electromagnetic radiation. Technology today helps to capture this radiation
and turn it into usable forms of solar energy - such as heating or electricity.
CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE SURVEY