New solar thermal components testing facility established at Hyderabad

International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) established a new solar thermal components testing facility at Hyderabad to give further fillip to India’s growing solar sector.

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The facility will validate solar thermal components such as solar receiver tubes, heat transfer fluids, concentrating mirrors, and AR coated glass tubes, etc. of the CST system in field conditions.

It will validate the indigenous components by parallelly comparing the performance (heat gain and heat loss properties) of the standard components with varying the operating parameters and different DNI (Direct Normal Irradiance) conditions.

The parabolic-trough test rig facility has features for simultaneous testing of standard and indigenous solar receiver tubes.

It has a thermic fluid-based closed-loop system which can operate between 50 to 350°C temperature range.