Renewable Energy And Environment Proceedings of the National Solar Energy Convention-1989 Udaipur-Rajasthan December 1-3,1989

Editors

A.N. Mathur N.S. Rathore

Organised by

Renewable Energy Centre Coll. of Tech . & Agri. Engg., (Raj. Agri. University, Bikaner) UDAIPUR - 313001

The Solar Energy Society of India

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CONTENTS Preface Conference Committees Report of the Organising Secretary Presidential Address Renewable Energy and Environment, National Solar Energy Convention-1989 J.C.Kapoor SECTION I: ENERGY IN AGRICULTURE 1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Energy Management in Agriculture and Rural Sector: Invited Lecture N.S.Randhawa Honey Comb Solar Collector/Storage System for Agricultural applications N.D. Kaushika, RA. Ray and Padma Priya Improved Method for Pre-Treatment of Brackish Water for Solar Distillation to prevent Algal Growth and Scale Formation J.P. Gupta, P. Shartna and MM. Purohit An overview on Use of Plastics in Solar Energv Utilization in Post Harvest Operation Sandeep Bhatnagar and S.K. Jain Development of Inclined Solar Dryer with Alternative Materials KP. Thanvi and P.C. Pande Use of Solar Dryers for Chilgoza Pine Seed Extraction S.S. Chandel, D.Gupta and P.KKhosla Solar Drying of Chir Pine Cones for Seed Extraction S.S. Chandel, D.Gupta and P.KKhosla Performance evaluation of Solar based One tonne capacity Grain Dryer YusufAli W&A.N. Mathur Large Scale Commercial Dryer G.V.Raju, M.G.Tahvale and V.G.Bhinde An Evaluation of Chemical Composition of Carrot and Cauliflower Dried under Different Drying Conditions Mrs.M.Goyal and Mrs. S.Mathew Study of Convective Heat Losses in Solar Cookers HJ.Shukla and R.C.Patel Cooking with Sun—An Experiment for Domestic application in India A.N. Mathur, N.S. Rathore and YusufAli A masonary Solar Cooker for Cooking Animal Feed YusufAli, A.N. Mathur and N.S. Rathore Prototype Development of a Better Model of Box type Solar Cooker S.K Philip, A.K.Singhal and C.S. Rao Construction of a Compound Parabolic Solar Cooker K Perumal, S. Jayaraman, R. Govindasamy and A. Romalingam Optical Efficiency and Stagnation Test on a Paraboloid Solar Cooker Subodh Kumar, T.C.Khandpal andS.C. Mullick On Experiments to Determine Quantitative Performance Parameters and thendependence on constructional details of Box Type Solar Cookers V. Balasubramanian

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15 27

33 37 41 47 53 59 63

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Design and Testing of a Paraboloid Surface Concentrated type of Solar Cooker Ranjeet Singh and O.P. Yadav

SECTION II: BIOMASS 19. 20. 21.

22. 23

24. 25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.

38. 39.

Biomass farming in Himalaya—Issues of R & D, Training and Extension N.P. Melkania Energy Plantation for Power: A Renewable Decentralized Energy System for Rural Development Iqbal Husain and N.S. Rathore Biomass Production of certain Fuelwood Species for Energy Plantation in Semi-Arid Region of Aravali Iqbal Husain, A.N. Mathur and M.M. Sharma Experiences in Waste Land Development: A Case Study DeshRaj A System Approach to Integrated Rural Energy Planning at Micro-Level for a Tribal Village in Chhotanagpur R. Arora, P.S. Satsangi and R.C. Maheshwari Large Community Kitchen-Problems of Fuel & Efficiency RKKulkarni Design & Development of Throatless Gasifier for Agricultural Residues V.K Jain and C.S. Rao Studies on Crystallisation Characteristics of Binary Eutectics S.K Sharma, C.KJotshi and Rossy Gupta Use of some Photocatalysts in Photo Reduction of Carbon-Dioxide: An Approach towards Solar Energy Conversion A.K Chittdra, B. Sharma, Ms. M.Bala and S.C.Ameta Garbage Gas Manure Plant Rahul Parikh Study on Biogas Production from Mixed Feed A.N. Mathur, N.S. Rathore and N.M. Ali Survey of Family Size Biogas Plants installed in Punjab B.S.Sohal, M.Singh and N.S. Grewal Community Biogas Plant Construction: A Modular Approach S.B.Agnihotri Development of Low Cost Chetak Biogas Plant: A Step for Commercialization of Technology AM. Mathur, N.S. Rathore, D. Sharma and S. Kothari Production of Biogas from Sheep Dropping KK. Chhabra and A.N. Mathur Distillary Spent Wash—A Source for Energy Generation V.V. Deshpande and P.L. Kulkami Utilization of Wet Cow Dung Slurry-A Survey based Experiment at Hambran Village R.K Gupta, S.KVyas and N.S. Sandhar Utilization of Digested slurry as a supplementary feed for enhancing Biogas Production N.S. Rathore, Sudheendra S. Vyas and Sudhir Jain Some Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on a Spark Ignited Wood Gas Engine for Electric Power Generation AM Rao Response of Rural Women Towards a Selected Model of Improved Chulha R. George and Vandana Vmgle . Fuel Conservation Potential and Acceptability of a Selected Model of Improved Chulha—A Case Study R. George, Salma Nadvi and K Patel

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135 139

145 151 157 163

169 175 181 185 189 195 199 205 209 213

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40. 41.

42.

Performance of the Baffleless Cookstove-Rohini S.K Sharma, B.P.S. Sethi and R.K Tuli Development of a Real Time Data Acquisition and Control System for Testing Performance of CookstQves S.K Sharma and M. Srivastava Status of the Improved Chulha Programme in Himachal Pradesh S.S. Chandel and Rajeev Aggarwal

SECTION III: SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 43. 44. 45.

46. 47. 48. 49.

50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.

57. 58. 59.

60. 61.

Performance Prediction of a New Jet Plate Solar Air Heater CChaudhary and H.P.Garg Ideal Refrigerant for Solar Vapour-Jet Cooling in India U.S. Bhattacharya and S.K. Saha Solar Cooling by the Vapour-Jet Refrigeration System: A Feasibility Study through Experiment U.S. Bhattacharya and S.K Saha Development'of an Efficient Solar Still for Production of Distilled Water KP. Thami andP.CPande A Solar Sterilizer for Rural Hospital A.K Singhal, S.R. Patel and C.S. Rao Energy Analysis of Solar Thermal Collectors KK Dutta Gupta and S.K Saha Study of Dependence of Top Heat Loss Factor of a Flat Plate Collector with a Single Glazing on the Basic Parameters S.K Samdarshi and S. C. Mullick Low Cost CoIlector-cum-Storage Solar Water Heater for Community Applications Sunil Katam, A. Singh and V. Balasubramanian Study on Water Heating from Concrete Solar Collectors. P.B.L. Chaurasia Relative performance of Solar Water Heaters with Selective and Non-Selective Absorber? KD. Mannan and Parmpal Singh A Microprocessor Based Thermal Efficiency Meter A. Thomas, VS. Prasad and M.K Gunasekaran Boiling of Organic Fluids in Flat-Plate Solar Collectors A..G. Bhave Thermal Efficiency of a Compound Parabolic Solar Concentrator S. Jayaraman, K Perumal and V. Balasubramanian Design and Performance Characteristics of a Linear Fresnel Reflector Solar Concentrate with Triangular Absorber R.P. Goswami, B.S. Negi and G.D. Sootha Performance Studies of Vaccum Tube Collectors (VTC) C.K Thete, M.G. Takwale and V.G. Bhide Thermodynamic Design Data Analysis for Solar Heat Pump Systems K Subramanian, T.S. Ramaswamy and V. Srinivasan Fixed Mirror Distributed Focus (FMDF) Solar Collector System for the Application to Power Generation—Thermal Energy Facility V.B. Gandhe, A. Venkatesh and V. Sriramulu Design, Testing and Performance of 50 kw Solar Thermal Power Plant N. Singh, Jugal Kishore, R.C. Tiwari, R.P. Goswami, S.K. Gupta and G.D. Sootha Transient Analysis for Trouble Shooting in 50 kw Solar Thermal Power Plant, Gwalpahari N. Singh, S.K Gupta, Jugal Kishore, R.C. Tiwari and R.P. Goswami

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245 249

253 255 261

265 271 277 283

289 295 301 307 313 319 325

331 337 343

349 355 361

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Issues Specific to Implementation of Large Solar Central Receiver Power Systems in India S.T. Rajan and S.D. Gomkale

SECTION IV: SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal Solar Collectors R.K Aganval, H.P. Garg and A.K. Bhargava 64. A Multi-Channel Data Recording System for PV Modules V.Dutta and A.K. Saxena 65. Microprocessor Interfacing to Display (Vm, Im) of a Solar Cell as 4-digit BCD Values Each A. Raychaudhuri, A. Konar and H. Saha 66. Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Studies in Molten Amides and Amide Mixture-P-type MoSe2 Electrode S. Sampath and R. Narayan 67. Solar Spectral Response of Graded Base Silicon Cell R.B. Gangadhar and N.D. kaushika 68. Development of Solar Insecticide Sprayer P.C. Pande, S.C. Chawdhary and KP. Thanvi 69. Field Performance Studies on a SPV Water Pumping System Akanksha Chaurey, P.M. Sadaphal and A. Singh 70. Study of Solar Photovoltaic Pumping System V.K Vtjoy, N.S. Rathore and C.K Saxena

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SECTION V: WIND ENERGY 71. 72. 73. 74.

Wind Energy System: Key-note Address V.Seshadri Small Wind Electric Water Pumping Systems (SWEPS) Robin Dutta Development of an Efficient Wind Trapping System V.K Vijay, N.S. Rathore and V.K. Changela Wind Electric Generator at Antarctica R.P. Gupta and KCRamakrishnan

SECTION VI: ENERGY STORAGE 75.

76. 77. 78.

Studies on performance Characteristics of Salt-gradient Solar Ponds using Aqueous Solutions of Copperas C.M.Narayanan Construction and Study of an Underground Solar Water System K Perumal, T. Alagesan and S. Sakthivel Test Setup for Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) System S.K Sharma and PJ. Arora Kinetics of Thermophysical Evaluation of Urea-Ammonium Bromide Eutectic for Storage Applications S.K Sharma, CKJotshi and Suneeta Chopra

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J93 397 403 409 415

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451 457 461

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SECTION VII: SOLAR PASSIVE BUILDINGS 79. 80. 81.

Design of Passive Solar Buildings A.K Rajvanshi Case Study of Vernacular Architecture in Composite zone: Experimentation and Thermal Modelling Narendra Singh Estimation of Effective Length of Underground Pipes: Effect of Different Earth Surface Treatments M.S. Sodha, R.L. Sawhney and D. Buddhi

SECTION VIH: SPECIAL TOPICS 82. 83. 84. 85.

Solar Irrigation: Water and Energy Management Jai Ram Meena Low Cost Civil Design for Mini and Micro Hydel Projects S.K Singhal, M.K Singhal and N.K Saxena Importance of Mini and Micro Hydel Station in Energy Requirement M.C. Harsh and KS. Gupta Measurement of Thermophysical properties of Loose Granular Materials at Varying Temperatures and Moisture Contents A.K Shrotriya, A.K Singh, Ramvir Singh and D.R. Chaudhary AUTHOR INDEX

473 475 481 487

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