• Gaurav Siwal

Conventional Sources of energy are depleting year by year. Fuels are getting costlier resulting in costly transportation and electricity generation. Renewable sources of energy are emerging as promising solution to such energy needs. Government in various countries is encouraging the use of such non-conventional sources of energy. Sun is never exhausting and ultimate source of energy. The energy from the sun can be harvested in two ways; it can be converted directly to electricity by photovoltaic cells or its rays can be concentrated to raise the temperature at particular point. A solar thermal plant at Bergen group, Gurugram (India) was studied and some key results are discussed in this paper. It was a Demo plant that utilizes the solar thermal energy to convert water into steam which was used to pump the water at certain height. There can be other application like energy generation, chemical processing, food processing, textile and other industries requiring process heat. Total solar radiation at location, heat loses, final output power and efficiency of the system is calculated theoretically based on real time data.

Solar energy, Solar thermal, Heat loses, solar radiation calculation

"CASE STUDY OF SOLAR THERMAL PLANT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.615-620, MAY-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805705.pdf

"CASE STUDY OF SOLAR THERMAL PLANT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp615-620, MAY-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805705.pdf