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Steam Generation from Solar Trough Energy

Steam Generation from Solar Trough Energy. The New Red B. Presentation Outline. Customer and Team Goals Recap Our Steam Generator Alternative, rejected ideas Anticipated Challenges Mock-up Results Future Challenges. Customer. Matt S. Orosz (MIT G, Engineering Systems)

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Steam Generation from Solar Trough Energy

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  1. Steam Generation from Solar Trough Energy The New Red B

  2. Presentation Outline • Customer and Team Goals Recap • Our Steam Generator • Alternative, rejected ideas • Anticipated Challenges • Mock-up Results • Future Challenges

  3. Customer • Matt S. Orosz (MIT G, Engineering Systems) • Working with Bethel Business and Community Development Center in Lesotho (southern Africa) to enable parabolic trough applications

  4. Our Goal – Create More Applications for Parabolic Trough • Electricity • Micro Hydro Power – hammer mills, power tools • Heating water • Devices for clinics and schools

  5. Our Steam Generator • Use Apricus solar absorption tube to produce steam within boiler • Water boiler designed to connect to interchangeable devices • Concentration: Sterilization Borosilicate Glass Copper Nub Heat Absorption Coating

  6. Alternatives Considered-Steam Engine • Financially feasible • Not enough solar energy to power a 1 hp engine • Closed loop efficiency ~5% • Open loop efficiency ~2% • Integrating system components (pumps, condensers) also not feasible for this class

  7. Alternatives Considered – Sterling Engine • Simpler principle than steam engine • Not financially feasible • Low HP engines > $35,000 • Technology not yet available (2005?) • Still in R&D phase • Maximum efficiency ~ 10%, still not enough output

  8. Anticipated Challenges • Heat Transfer, how? • From nub to water to generating steam • Pressurized Steam - ASME Codes • Tube Safety • Max operating temperature of 250°C • Fragile Casing – Borosilicate glass • Maximum Strength 0.8 MPa

  9. Our Mock-Up • Water is working fluid (20 oz) • “Solar” source: 250W heat lamps (4) • Gravity fed • Nub conducts heat to water until it reaches boiling temperature • Nucleate boiling Boiler not pictured.

  10. Knowledge from Mockup and Calculations • Boiler is currently heating water • Time to initially reach boiling significant • Not using solar reflector, means less heat absorption • Using less than 1/20 of actual energy • Predict it will not film boil

  11. Challenges Still to be Resolved • Experimentally confirm will not film boil at maximum anticipated solar heat flux • Make sterilizer from pressure cooker • Pressurization of system to 45 psi (135°C) to run for cooker

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