Centre Announces Building Of A Solar Thermal Components Facility At Hyderabad
- ByStartupStory | July 8, 2021
The Union Ministry of Science and technology on Wednesday announced that a Solar thermal components facility at Hyderabad is soon to be developed. The facility can help the solar industry test capability and performance of solar thermal components like solar receivers tubes, heat transfer fluids, and concentrating mirrors. The facility has been set up by International Advanced Research Centre Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous part of the Department of Science and Technology, the ministry said. The testing facility will validate indigenous components by examining their performances at varying parameters such as flow rates of heat transfer fluids, operating temperature and pressure and different DNI (direct normal irradiance) conditions. It can also conduct simultaneous testing of indigenous and solar receiver tubes. It also has a thermic fluid based closed loop system that helps it to operate at varying temperatures from 50 – 350 °C.
It will also be able to conduct heat gain studies in real-field conditions, where it can measure the actual solar irradiance condition and has an electric heater support for measuring the actual heat loss of solar receivers at different operating temperatures. With a majority of the solar thermal companies importing solar thermal components, especially from China and Europe. There is an opportunity for indigenous solar thermal components manufacturing players to develop their solar thermal technologies for low and medium-temperature applications, the ministry said.ARCI has already been working on the cost of manufacturing solar receiver tubes, anti reflective coated glass covers nanostructured material-based thermic fluids.
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