S.K.SinghScientist ‘F’/Director

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOLAR ENERGY Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India

New R&D Initiatives in Solar Thermal at NISE

New R&D Initiatives in Solar Thermal at NISE

Recent Initiatives:•Mobile Heat Carrier •Solar biomass hybrid systems for power generation, Cold storage & Desalination•Solar thermal cold storage for 24x7operations using thermal storage

Proposed Plane:•24*7 Solar Thermal hybrid biogass off-grid polygeneration power plant

Mobile Heat carrier

Solar biomass hybrid systems for power generation, Cold storage & Desalination

•Electricity from biomass gasifier•Cooling from engine exhaust•Solar concentrators during solar hours(SEC, Thermax, TERI)

Typical Energy Distribution

160 kW

Electricity

50 kW

Exhaust 50 kW at 400 C

Engine Jacket Heat

50 kW at 92 C

200 kW Biomass

Charcoal 24kW

Gas

ifier

Gas Engine Generator

50 kW Biomass Gasifier System

VAM

Heat Recovery Unit, Control panel, VAM & Cold Storage

Solar Sheffler Dishes

Cooling Capacity : 15 kW Cold storage Temperatur : 0 to 5°C Gas Engine capacity : 50 kWe Biomass consumption : 70 kg/hr Storage Capacity : 20 Tons Heat source for VAM

During solar hours : Solar and producer gas engine exhaust. During non solar hours : Producer gas engine exhaust/ auxiliary firing.

Project Specifications

Desalination System

Engine Jacket Heat at 82.5 oC

BIOMASS GASIFIER200 kW(th)

ELECTRICITYGENERATION

50kW

IRRIGATION

BIOMASS FROM FARM

Engine Exhaust (

50Kw at 400 °C)

Engine JacketHeat 50kW at 82.5 °C

RURAL ELECTRIFICATONAGRICULTURE PRODUCTION

Drinking Water. 400 L / Hr.

Cold storage: 20 tn

Gasifier as back up to Solar Hot water Generator. Backup becomes active when the hot water from solar is not at 120 deg. C, or when the cold storage is required when Sun is not available.

Cold Room PCM Storage

Gassifier based hot

water generation

24*7 Operations by Solar Thermal

Backup of gasifier incaseOf solar deficiency

Solar thermal cold storage for 24x7operations using thermal storage

24*7 Solar Thermal hybrid biogass off-grid polygeneration power plant

Future plane….•Hybrid solar thermal for polygeneation process •Cooling and Distillation in cogeneration• Solar Cooking-cooling cogeneration

Solar Cooking System

Cooling-Desalination Co generation

Hot water Chilled water

Boiler Super heater Water

tank

Absorber

Turbine

380 0C at 60 bar

200 0C (860kW)

1430CCondenser/Generator

Evaporator

Boiler/Condenser

1800C

400C400C

140kW electrical

2000C

70C (602kW)

120 0C Steam (739kW)

400C (722kW)

300C

1MW (Input)

140kW Electricity

739kW Process Steam

602kW Cooling

722kW Hot water

Total Output=140+739+60

2+722= 2203kW

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