Designing of Parabolic Trough Solar Concentrator Using Structural Steel

As the exploitation of solar energy has taken place in the field of R&D, structural steel has become a major part of the design and development of the next generation collectors. The design practice used in India and in the Asian community has been considered in major designing and has been considered as a new approach in analysing the wind-load, dead load conditions. These load conditions have been evaluated and analysed at various angular positions of the collector. The optimum dimension for some elements due to the state of the art design has been described in this work and has been highlighted.