EVOLUTION, COMMERCIALISATION AND SUCCESS OF SOLAR CONCENTRATORS IN INDIA-FROM SOLAR COOKING TO PROCESS HEATING/COOLING APPLICATIONS

摘要

In this paper we would like to share our experience and success story of how Solar Concentrators have evolved in India and now commercialised and successfully serving high temperature needs and applications. With a Power Point Presentation, we would take the participants of the conference in our journey of Solar Concentrators that have gradually evolved with help, input and collaboration of German and Austrian inventors in India. We would show how based on inputs and feedback from users the systems were improved to meet and fulfil various requirements. We would present various Systems that have been successfully developed and commercialised and share how the systems have been accepted by people, its use and implications and benefits of its use. We will share our experience and installation of our various systems including Solar Steam Generating using Scheffler Concentrators which includes the Worlds largest Solar Steam Cooking System installed and working at a temple in S. India which cooks 30,000 meals per day with steam generated with solar energy and which is saving upto 400 ltrs diesel per day and reducing output of 1.2 tons of co2 per day into the atmosphere. We would present success stories which work as Multipliers and also share our Vision how what started with Solar Cookers can be used/is being used for various applications like Drinking water from sea water (desalination), Smokeless Village, Solar Chilling and Cold Storage for empowering farmers, Use of Solar System for Food processing for income generation and value addition, Solar crematoriums, Solar Incinerators, Solar Waste water evaporation systems, Solar Dryers for agricultural products and products that require high temperature etc We would also share our success with our Case Study on how we could tap Global Treaty Kyoto Protocol's CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) to make "Renewable 2004" meet held in Bonn "carbon neutral" by delivering Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) to German Ministry if Environment through GTZ by bundling our Solar Kitchen projects and preparing Project Design Document (PDD) and how we could get it registered with UNFCC.